When did the Republican Party become a Party of racists?

[myohmy2]

The Hill, 7-16-2019

" Republicans on Tuesday demanded that Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) remarks blasting President Trump’s comments about four minority congresswomen as racist be removed from the record, freezing action on the floor ahead of a House vote condemning Trump. "

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/453370-gop-demands-that-pelosi-remarks-be-removed-from-record
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Trump has said the most vile and despicable things about every person who's ever disagreed with him. Trump was a leader in the birther movement against President Obama, has embraced Neo-Nazis, White Supremacists/Nationalists, Communist dictators and Fascism but somehow the House Republicans have a problem with Nancy applying the word 'racist' to Trump.

Trump has wrongly accused four honorable American citizens of color and U. S. House of Representative members of being ungrateful, un-American, unpatriotic Communists and that they should get out, "Love America or Leave It".

Most House and Senate Republicans agreed with their leader Trump.

When did the Republican Party become a Party of racists?

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[sandensea]

1. I believe it was at the height of the Civil Rights era in '64

Goldwater decided his only chance (not that he had one), was to try to take clear sides on the issue - but against civil right, rather than for them as many in the GOP were at the time.

He only succeeded in winning a few Deep South state (plus Arizona, barely) - but every wingnut, Jim Crower, and Klan kook migrated in short order (by '72 or so) from the Democrats to Republicans.

And as you know, it's only gotten more extreme since then.

[Aristus]

2. When LBJ signed the Voting Rights Act in 1964.

He was a Democrat, like most people in the post-Confederacy South.

He allegedly remarked, upon signing the bill: "We just lost the South for the next 100 years."

[KT2000]

7. +1

of course they were racists before but that is when the real war started.

[vercetti2021]

8. Half way through that Texas, Georgia, and Arizona are returning to us

Another 10 years and all three will be radically different

[elleng]

9. He KNEW it was part of 'our' 'dna.'

Been so for a LONG time.

Recall:

[Dan]

3. Well, landmarks seem to indicate

Nixon’s Southern Strategy,

Reagan’s speech at Philadelphia Mississippi.

Bush Sr.’s Willie Horton.

It was a winning strategy but demographics will turn this into the GOP death spiral.

Our children are in some ways - the children that view the world so differently than their parents.

Plus, there are more and more blended families.

My thoughts.

[JI7]

4. When Nixon Adopted the Southern Strategy, but even then it was sometimes more of a political

strategy to get votes.

and the racist republicans were ok with that as long as they felt whites remained in charge. Obama becoming President and Hillary very likely to succeed him changed all of that. along with same sex marriage and other changes in society.

so they felt betrayed and went for the openly bigoted trash.

[Hoyt]

5. Fortunately, Dixiecrats either were absorbed by GOPers after Civil Rights Act, or some of the

of the remaining Southern moderate or reformed bigots died out by 1980s or so.

But, a Southern Democrat still has to fight charges of “ DemoKKKrats” referring to 40 - 50 years ago. Of course, nowadays it’s easy to counter that GOPers are now the racist party.

The distinction is quite clear nowadays.

[True_Blue]

6. Probably since the Dixiecrat era

Racists have voted Republican ever since then.

[lunatica]

10. When the founders decided a Black man was only a fraction of a man so

therefore didn’t count as a complete person, so therefore forfeited all rights as a citizen.

Women, of course, of any race, weren’t even considered a partial person. They were mere property.