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Originally Posted by Dom1
I never said the Democrats were more racist than the Republicans or anything along those lines. I have consistently said that there are racists in both parties, but I am not buying that whole Dixiecrat spiel. That may be true for some of them, but not for people like Al Gore Sr. and Robert Byrd, who is still in the Senate. It also does not explain things like JFK voting against civil rights when his party did not introduce it - and he is most definately not a southernor. Seems that political issues were also taken into consideration and often outweighed the civil rights issue.
Not to mention that recent comments about Indians by people like Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden had nothing to do with southern racism. There are plenty of other comments we can find on both sides of the aisle. That is my position. I was arguing with someone who felt that the Republicans as a whole was a racist party and that the Democrats were not. To me, that is a foolhardy statement to lump all people in a party together on a issue such as this.
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Again Dom1, I agree with what you are saying...politics was a major factor. JFK was very pro civil rights, but, in reality, it took a Southerner to sign the bill. Personally, I consider Tennessee as part of the South....not so much so with West Virginia. I don't know what quotes you are referring to regarding Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and the Indians.
On a personal note, I have many conservative friends, more than I have liberal friends....probably because I grew up in a very conservative region. But,
in general, I have found my conservative friends to be more bigoted than my more liberal friends...and it's not really close. Now, I'm not saying that all of my conservative friends are bigots, but
some have bigoted tendencies....enough to have caused some pretty heated arguments with me.
Again, this all based only on my own personal sample of friends. But, it is a pretty strong and solid observation based on the data at hand. Are all conservatives bigots? Of course not. That's just as dumb as these other clowns saying that all liberals hate America. But have I personally seen a correlation between conservatism and bigotry....yes, a little bit.