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   XPost: alt.fan.j-garofalo   
   From: no@spam.com   
      
   On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 18:33:36 -0500, E. Barry Bruyea    
   wrote:   
      
   >On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 22:52:10 GMT, "Liberals HATE,America ."   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >>"spam"  wrote in message   
   >>news:ni3f00lctlm49ne6p9ql0uj8i9putqi1lt@4ax.com...   
   >>> On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 15:31:16 -0500, E. Barry Bruyea    
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> >On 15 Jan 2004 02:32:35 -0800, maff91@yahoo.com (maff) wrote:   
   >>> >   
   >>> >>LiberalsLieLikeCrazy@yahoo.com (Cleopatra) wrote in message   
   >>news:...   
   >>> >>> maff91@yahoo.com (maff) wrote in message   
   >>news:<18510aff.0401141152.6fe83889@posting.google.com>...   
   >>> >>> >   
   >>> >>> > But it's Bible Belt fundamentalists and Confederates who're   
   >>desperate.   
   >>> >>> > Did you think that the Union was going to stand idly by when you   
   >>fired   
   >>> >>> > on Fort Sumter?   
   >>> >>>   
   >>> >>> Twinky, do you frauds ever tire of bleating about fundies and assorted   
   >>> >>> other largely non-existent Christian bogeymen? I mean, it's clear to   
   >>> >>> anyone with half a brain that you use this as a convenient rationale   
   >>> >>> for being otherwise rejected at the polls.   
   >>> >>>   
   >>> >>> If there were even .0000000000000012% of the fundamentalists who you   
   >>> >>> liberals claim there are standing in the way of *progress,* there   
   >>> >>> would be about 7 democrats in congress and zero democrat senators.   
   >>> >>   
   >>> >>But it isn't about Democrats or Republicans. When half of the   
   >>> >>population doesn't even vote, it's the fundamentalists who vote en   
   >>> >>masse for the Bushie fascists.   
   >>> >   
   >>> >For most of the almost 14 decades since the U.S. civil war, most   
   >>> >Southerners & 'Fundies' were/are democrats.  All of the 'Grand   
   >>> >Dragons' of the KKK were democrats.  There is even an ex Klan leader   
   >>> >sitting as a democrat in the U.S. congress.   
   >>> >   
   >>>   
   >>> Were and are are not the same thing. The KKK guys, Fundies, etc,   
   >>> started to leave the Democratic party as soon as a Democratic   
   >>> president desegregated the armed forces. Those who left ended up in   
   >>> the Republican party.   
   >>   
   >>Prove it, liar.   
   >   
   >   
   >He can't.  The swing from southern democrat to 'republican' has only   
   >been in the past two decades, long after the 'desegregation' of the   
   >armed forces.  Several southern states have elected republican   
   >governors for the first time just in the past decade.   
      
   Sure I can, its so well known as a fact its in encyclopedias.   
   http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/ea/side/dixicrat.html   
      
   I guess you missed the "started to" part. It started long before 1980   
   - hell, Nixon ran on the Southern Strategy. There's lots of material   
   that covers this trend - do some reading.   
      
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