What the hell happened?

[kpete]

http://liberalsarecool.com/post/144889375499/1950s-enter-civil-rights-enter-equality-as-a

[katsy]

1. Big $$$ would be my guess

[merrily]

2. Between FDR and Truman, New Deal/Fair Deal Democrats had held the Oval Office for

20 consecutive years before Eisenhower. Not only that, but their coattails were so long, Democrats did not lose control of Congress much until 1994. Between their example and Democratic Congresses, Republicans were scared they had to be liberal or never see the Oval Office again. (Remember who Republicans were before FDR--Hoover.)

Also, a platform is a nonbinding thing and is usually far better than actual performance, both the Democratic platform and the Republican platform.

[1939]

13. Republicans often controlled one or both houses

during the FDR and Truman administrations. It was in 1954 that Democrats got a lock on the house that lasted till 1994. The Senate was controlled by the Republicans briefly during the Reagan administration.

[HughBeaumont]

3. Ayn Rand, that's what happened.

And the logical bollocks parade that followed.

Martin Feldstein.

The Powell Memo.

Neoliberalism.

Milton Friedman and the South American "experiment".

It all happened glacially and we never saw it coming. Now there's no correcting it.

[TwilightZone]

4. Nixon/Atwater/Southern Strategy/Reagan

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

5. Money

Greed. Sociopathy.

[JEB]

6. Corruption. nt

[pampango]

7. That's when being a 'moderate' republican was more about being 'moderate' than being republican. n/t

[deaniac21]

8. The rest of the story

http://www.snopes.com/politics/politicians/1956.asp

[MisterP]

9. Clintonism happened

[jwirr]

14. Absolutely.

[JHB]

10. Conservatives

[whatthehey]

11. Simple. Racist backlash against Civil Rights era, and Dominionism

[jwirr]

12. Well first of all they were living in a post-FDR era that was

actually working for everyone (with the exception of POC).

Second Labor Unions were very strong and most of these platforms are from the Unions.

As to refugees I can guarantee you that they were not talking about from Mexico. At the time we were involved in some issues with the USSR and there were refugees that were coming to the USA from that conflict. It was not about race. Most of them were white.

Politics happened.