
Originally Posted by
Guisslapp
You keep forgetting that I am not a Democrat. They aren’t my heroes.
You might not know this but the Republican Party used to be the party that had the greater percentage of the black vote prior to Goldwater. At that time, the racists supported the Democrat party - not the party of Lincoln. Byrd is a relic of that era of the yellow dog Democrats. Of course, once Goldwater campaigned against the Civil Rights Act, the Republicans brought many of the racist Dems into the fold and the black vote shifted Democrat.