Love it when AOC pushes Wingnuts' buttons; not so much mine about FDR

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126. New Deal coalition was held in place by Jim Crow

The old-left Dem party tolerated racism (and sexism etc) in order to hold onto the Solid South (as well as many working class whites even in the North) who had hostile views towards blacks and others (eg. Catholics) they viewed as beneath the WASP white man.

FDR is one of the greatest presidents in American history, but he was still a politician, and as such not free from playing to the voters he knew he had to get to win elections.

It was really only until Hubert Humphrey called this out at the 1948 Democratic National Convention that the Dem party slowly but steadily started moving in a civil rights direction:

https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/huberthumphey1948dnc.html
"My friends, to those who say that we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say to them we are 172 years late. To those who say that this civil-rights program is an infringement on states’ rights, I say this: The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadow of states' rights and to walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights. People -- human beings -- this is the issue of the 20th century. People of all kinds -- all sorts of people -- and these people are looking to America for leadership, and they’re looking to America for precept and example."