DIXIECRATS!! Racism, Discrimination and Prejudice.....hmmm

[Hutzpa]

Definition of Dixiecrat: Conservative white Southerners who remain within the Democratic Party, and those who were formerly Democrats but now identify as Republicans.


The recent major discussion on DU regarding Immigration and Cynthia McKinney lead me to do a little research to find out why are people so segregated in their views. It saddens me that folks are still missing the big picture....so I decided to pull up some links just to get people thinking or if you will bring back what we all have forgotten.

It was these rich whites which founded and ran on the Dixiecrat platform. The South had been dominated by the Democrats, including Strom Thurmond and the Dixiecrats, and their campaigns were run as a protest against the gradual commitment of the national Democratic Party to civil rights. When Thurmond and the Dixiecrats split and joined the Republican party after their failed presidential campaign, the GOP as we know it was born.

This reminds me of Cynthia, heres another one:

Why hire a white man at a reasonable wage when you could have a captive black worker for virtutally free, who could literally be worked to death because another one could quickly be arrested on bogus charges to replace him? White workers were beginning to realize that their only hope of escaping poverty was to unite labor, and this meant uniting across color lines. Multi-racial unions were becoming more common, and were increasingly capable of standing up to the vicious landowners. The Dixiecrats were terrified.

Does this ring a bell, Immigration and Spanish.

Today American workers face a parallel plight. But instead of the exploitation of captive black labor, it is the exploitation of third-world labor that is devastating the wages and employment of American workers. The question for the corporate class has now become, Why pay an American worker a reasonable wage when I can get workers in China for pennies a day?

Heres the link

http://www.opednews.com/lee1103_why_labor_matters.htm



So all this started from one gentleman Senator Strom Thurmond, by breaking out to form a third party for the 1948 Presidential elections.

Imagine the strategy he used to break up White from Black, by portraying Blacks as 'Sexual monsters' and also by stating that equal rights would allow the beast to run rampant. Does this remind you of Cynthia McKinney, is she running rampant hence the smear campaing? I wonder :shrug:


Sometimes we need to use alittle common sense, they have been dividing us for so long and are still doing it, and its done mentally.


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[wyldwolf]

1. I'm not clear on your point in this

Are you saying McKinney's problems are caused by "Dixiecrats?"

[danalytical]

3. Yeah seriously

I agree the dixiecrats were a major force of pain for the American people and blacks more specifically, but what does that have to do with McKinney poking a cop with her cell phone after going through a security checkpoint without ID, and then calling said cop a racist on national TV?

[Skinner]

2. I consider this post to be extremely inflamatory.

As well as completely ignorant and factually incorrect. But perhaps I misunderstand.

Correct me if I am wrong... You seem to be suggesting that those who do not share your views on Immigration or the recent McKinney situation are racist Dixiecrats. Is that correct?

[Skinner]

4. Locking

Considering that no effort was made to answer my question for 10 minutes, I will assume that my reading of the topic was correct.