>What? I'm supposed to be tolerant of those who issue totally idiotic statements. Or in a worse case issue hateful and destructive statements.
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>Once again, you feel the need to frame everything in terms of conservative/liberal, democrat/republican. There's been much written about how many in the south turned towards the republican party when democrats pushed for civil rights in the 60s. Is that what explains your beliefs?
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Perry;

The south turned towards the Democratic Party because of Lincoln. When President Harry Truman introduced his Civil Rights Platform at the 1948 Democratic Presidential Convention, southerners walked out. They became known as “The States Rights Party” or “Dixiecrats”. Because of the Civil Rights action of the 1960’s the Democratic South became Republican.

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