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Originally Posted by Enrico Palazzo
no, conservatives, and when the left found a home in the Democratic party during the Civil Rights movement the GOP was waiting with open arms to welcome them to the ranks. Conservatives, by definition, want to keep, or "conserve" the status quo and at the time that was segregation and bans on interracial marriages. They think things should stay the way they are because of tradition, or "that's the way it's always been." Meanwhile it was liberals who advocated then and now change from the status quo when it resulted in injustice and inequality, who supported integration and who supported the right for individuals to marry outside of their race, despite 70% of the population being against such marriages (and using the Bible as their rationale for doing so).
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First of all the left was already in the Dem party. Secondly take a look at US history and things aren't as neatly packaged as you would like to make them. Hell you might as well reduce this thread to liberals good, conservatives bad, which then tends to imply Dems good Repubs bad. ( For those who like simplicity)
Let's try this
Brown vs Board of Education -- Chief Justice Earl Warren, former Gov of Calif (R) appointed by President Eisenhower (R) who also had the 1957 Civil Rights Act
1964 Civil Rights Act had more Repub votes % wise than Dem votes. I'll stop here and just note the above as a counterweight to the simple dichotomy that was emerging in this thread. Racism is limited to one region or one party/ideology.