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The point is that over time the parties have become much more identifiable on the contemporary left-right spectrum.
And as that's happened, the Dixiecrats have disappeared.
And as that's happened, the Dixiecrats have disappeared.
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12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
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True enough.
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The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.Comment
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Because he fooled me into thinking Aristotle said something quotable.Originally posted by KrazyHorse View PostClick here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La RochefoucauldComment
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What was the quote?12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
Killing it is the new killing it
Ultima Ratio RegumComment
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle never said it. Most people think he did, but it's just a paraphrase of Aristotle's thoughts in one of Will Durant's books. The ****er.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La RochefoucauldComment
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Are you sure it wasn't Ariel? Or do you just have the hots for her?12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
Killing it is the new killing it
Ultima Ratio RegumComment
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Silly KH, women can't write.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La RochefoucauldComment
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Not really. They are about as far to the right as you can get.Originally posted by DanS View PostChristianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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The KKK doesn't really exist now. We're talking about the 50s.
Johnson and Carter both were leftists and enjoyed a whole lot of support in the South.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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If you're claiming that Dixiecrats are left, you've lost all credibility. The KKK are extreme rightists, always have been. God, country, private property, small government, and conservatism, and white people.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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Neither politician courted the Klan. LBJ voted against civil rights until the late 50's, but was considered a moderate on race in the context of the South (i.e. he was one of only three Senators not to sign the Southern manifesto, and secured funding in federal programs for minorities at a time when it was anathema to any God-fearing Southerner). And when he finally had the power to do so, of course, he shut down Apartheid.Originally posted by DanS View Post
BTW, Carter didn't get into politics until the 60's. And running statewide in GA, he had similar politics on race as, say, Nixon nationally."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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You're saying that white Southerners who were racist, much less hard-core KKK members, supported Johnson in spite of Johnson's aggressive efforts to get U.S. Congress to pass civil rights legislation??Originally posted by DanS View PostA lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.Comment
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