crazyfingers
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Sounds like Ben Carson, aka Alias2, is unaware that the parties flipped places.
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Democrats support terrorists then, they support terrorists now.
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Wait? You mean the Democrats oppose slavery in the territories? And does this mean William Jennings Bryan charged up San Juan Hill?
SimpleDon
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I am much more concerned with the overwhelmingly larger number of Christians advising Obama. They, like the one muslim that you referenced, are by definition delusional. They believe that their lives are materially impacted by a supernatural being for whom no evidence has ever been found supporting that the supernatural being even exists.
Fortunately the current administration seems to rely not at all on this fantasy to govern the country, unlike the opposition party, who promised to groven as if this fantasy was real and who nominated a man to replace Obama who wears magic underwear to protect himself from evil. I kid you not.
that white nigga'?
SimpleDon
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Jesse Helms, Mills E. Godwind, Jr., Trent Lott, John Connally, Elizabeth Dole, Phil Gramm, Condoleezza Rice, Bob Barr, Frank White, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Mike Bowers, Rick Perry, Tom Vandergriff, Buddy Roemer, Zell Miller, Sonny Perdue, Nathan Deal, Richard Shelby,Fob Jones.
When Sonny Perdue was elected Governor of Georgia in 2003 the legislature elected with him was majority Democratic. Then overnight enough Democrats converted to Republican to make both houses majority Republican.
These are off the top of my head and as such are mainly from Georgia and Texas, the states that I know best. I have tried to list only Southerners. You might be better served if you did a search for something like "southern democrats who switched to Republican."
You are quite correct that a higher percentage of Republicans voted for the civil rights acts than Democrats, because of the large number of conservative, racist, segregationist, Southern Democrats who opposed the civil rights acts. Much to the credit of those Republicans.
But at the time both parties were much more moderate, each with elements that ranged from conservative to liberal. It was the moderate and liberal factions of both parties who supported the civil rights acts and it was the conservatives of both parties who voted against the acts
But since then the Republican party has become much more conservative, casting out the liberals and converting a large number of moderates into conservatives, and absorbing the largely racist, conservative, Southern Democrats.
In doing so the Republicans have come full circle from being the progressive, anti-slavery party at their founding out of the rubble of the whigs, into the conservative political home for the racist Southerners that they fought against in the Civil War.
SimpleDon
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Why was alias suspended? Was he or she a sock puppet?
(Don asks just to show that he is getting with the intertubes jargon.)
(Don asks just to show that he is getting with the intertubes jargon.)
crazyfingers
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I'm going with the hypothesis that Alias is a Ben Carson sock puppet.
SimpleDon
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Funny.
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This is correct. Given our propensity to offer up uninformed and specious arguments in regard to scientific matters, having an actual neurosurgeon on the forum carried with it the risk of exposing our ignorance on topics where we professed expertise. The moderation team felt that this would put us in the position of needing to make a choice between educating ourselves in order to be able to have discussions based on actual facts and data or glibly holding onto our ignorance in order to continue passing ourselves off as experts without going through all the effort required to become such. Naturally, we decided on the latter.
Also, he just went around insulting everyone and trolling shit and spamming garbage. That was secondary, though, and mostly it was so that we wouldn't need to learn anything.
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Into the GOP Platform?
The parties have greatly changed over time.
Back in the 60s my father was involved in politics to the point of making a run for office as a sacrificial candidate. He was a Republican. By the 90s he was voting pure Democrat--but his politics didn't change, the parties did.