Reply #2: In 1964 Johnson signed the Civil Rights Law and every racist in the South

[librechik]

fled to the Republican party-- because of course the Republicans are the party of Lincoln. There had been many Democrat racists in the South before then, but they all changed parties gradually, over about a decade after 1964.

Neither party has been the same since.

Blacks learned to vote Democratic, as it was Democrats who helped them--and racist Conservatives, now mostly in the Republican Party, conspire still to keep them down.

I'm not saying there aren't racist Democrats left, there are. Some.

But the vast majority of Republicans either are racists or accept and nourish what's left of the Confederate South among them for political reasons. It's all over their platform like stink on old fish. Lee Atwater, who invented the whole idea lamented "We can't say n**** anymore. Now we have to say 'tax cuts.' But every racist Republican knows when we say tax cuts we mean n*****."

That's who they have become, sadly. Lincoln's party is dead dead dead. Lincoln's party is going to kill African-American New Orleans and turn it white and Republican.