Dems and Republicans NEVER 'switched sides.'
And here is the argument as to why Republicans have Always been (for the most part!) the Good Guys:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/04/when_did_the_parties_switch_on_civil_rights.html
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As I’ve said before… you can literally see the party shift from space.
Civil War to the Civil Rights Act— South votes for Democrats.
Civil Rights Act onwards— South votes for Republicans.
The exceptions are Jimmy Carter in 1976 and Clinton, who poached a handful of southern states.
The article falsely attributes the Civil Rights Act to the Republicans. While elements of the Congressional GOP were instrumental in passing it and southern Democrats opposed it, that and Voting Rights were the brainchild of President Lyndon Johnson.
The other thing that people forget is that pre-Reagan the parties were much more diverse. You had different factions of Republicans and Democrats that could be economically or socially conservative or progressive. Some Republicans and Democrats backed Civil Rights, some didn’t. The southern Democrats staunchly opposed that, and after Johnson betrayed them, they joined George Wallace and later Richard Nixon.
From what I understand, the Southern switch between the parties happened similarly to paradigm shifts in science. No, the Dixiecrat old guard never joined the Republican Party, but went independent/third party or (due to the big parties of the USA being very open big tent parties with little enforcements of party lines) even remained in the Democratic Party, Their younger reactionairies who would become their successors , however, were Republicans.
Also, the observation remains that the allegiance of the South did swift from firmly Democratic to firmly Republican over a pretty short time. It seems far more reasonable to attribute this to a change in the parties than a radical shift in cultural values among the Southerners - especially if you compare the rhetorics and talking points of Dixiecrats and of modern Republicans…
Quite the inspiration to the Democrats was Abraham Lincoln:
A Republican .
Also, don't Google these quotes...:
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labour laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history
...if you don't want your entire 'argument' destroyed even more.
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