[Falmarri]

>After 160 years of the same political party fighting to rebuild racism

Is this serious comment? There was nothing that happened in the parties in the 1960s? Maybe 1964? All of a sudden the people in the south just suddenly decided to no longer be racist, and joined the Republican party fighting _against_ racism?

[zozbot234]

> All of a sudden the people in the south just suddenly decided to no longer be racist

That's pretty much what happened. The CRA (passed despite the opposition of southern Democrats) shifted the social equilibrium away from racism and a segregated society being totally normal and state-sanctioned, and Southern states had to reinvent themselves along different lines. They broadly chose economic freedom starting from the 1980s (despite continuing opposition by Dems, who to this day favor heavy-handed state intervention and a highly paternalistic attitude towards minorities), which is what created the modern Sunbelt.

[zmgsabst]

Yes — the same party has been persistently racist.

After the Civil War, they formed the KKK and Jim Crow to circumvent civil rights.

In modern times, they implemented racial quotas then racial preferences, both of which were ruled illegal bigotry by the US Supreme Court. (At Harvard and UNC, just last year.)

The same party who called blacks “super predators” (Clinton) and whose current president described integrated schools as a “racial jungle” (Biden).

The same party whose supporters are in the streets today, chanting genocidal slogans such as “from the river to the sea”.

The former DNC chairwoman just this week mocked the name of someone born in the US with Indian heritage and told him to “go home!”

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4319012-vivek-ramaswamy-c...

That you think the Democrats are anything but persistently racist is a testament to how well propaganda works.