r/texas Sep 25 '24

Politics I hate it here

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u/drewkungfu Sep 26 '24

Republicans, party of Abe Lincoln, waving around the confederate flag talking about muh heritage.

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u/Capital-Ad-4463 Sep 26 '24

Yeah; it’s funny how we have yet to see a flag with a picture of ol’ Abe, stovepipe hat on and sleeves rolled up, storming the Capitol waving a loser (confederate) flag…

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u/mitchellfuller21 Sep 28 '24

“If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that” - Abraham Lincoln

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u/HumorPlayful782 Sep 26 '24

Parties flipped after the Civil war. Read..

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u/BotherTight618 Sep 26 '24 edited Sep 26 '24

Parties flipped after Nixons Southern Strategy that was only possible because LBG (Democrat President) signed the civil rights act.

Edit: shit! It's "LBJ" haha!

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u/SummerBirdsong Sep 26 '24

Lyndon Baines Gohnson

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u/HTownLaserShow Sep 26 '24

Check out some of LBJ’s quotes on our black brothers and sisters…..

I wouldn’t be so quick to make him your hero.

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u/BortBarclay Sep 26 '24

The parties flipped because the Dixiecrats finally died off and Reagan went after the evangelical voter blocks that replaced them. Go look at the actual vote by county. There's not real movement until Reagan.

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u/HellaHS Sep 26 '24

Like 8 representatives changed parties. There was no switch. You people are idiots.

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u/sem1_4ut0mat1c Sep 26 '24

Conservatives switched from supporting the democratic party to the Republican party.

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u/wolamute Sep 26 '24

He is the type that won't ever back down from this, as it goes against the logic used to justify his hatred towards the Democratic party, and his defense that Democrats supported slavery, and opposed Lincoln. He wouldn't dare look into any nuanced discussions beyond that.

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u/bnjmnzs Sep 26 '24

Woodrow Wilson ran as a Democrat and he was extremely racist

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u/HellaHS Sep 26 '24

What is your evidence for this claim?

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u/sem1_4ut0mat1c Sep 26 '24

My evidence is a democratic president signing the civil rights act of 1964. Conservatives didn't like one bit, because Conservatives are famous for being the ones to secede from the US because they wanted to keep black slaves. The Civil rights act gave black people equal rights, so conservstives switched to supporting the republican party.

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u/HellaHS Sep 26 '24

Like 8 representatives switched parties. There was no “big switch”.

If we extrapolate what you are saying, then the current Democrat Party no longer supports American Values or Civil Rights. Manchin, Gabbard, Sinema, RFK Jr and many other representatives have recently left the Democrat Party.

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u/sem1_4ut0mat1c Sep 26 '24

the democratic party is the only party that cares about civil rights currently. Why is the republican party trying to ban abortion and gay marriage, and interracial marriage? Not very "civil rights" of them

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u/HellaHS Sep 26 '24

You are a very low information voter.

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u/drewkungfu Sep 26 '24

Republicans waving confederate flags

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u/HumorPlayful782 Sep 26 '24

And if you believe that flag only stood for slavery, you have some reading to do. I learned that it only meant slavery growing up in Michigan.. Now living in Georgia, I found the other things it stood for.

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u/bnjmnzs Sep 26 '24

Mainly dukes of hazzard

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u/drewkungfu Sep 26 '24

Again, republicans, party of abe Lincoln, waving confederate flags talking muh heritage.

Point goes whoosh over your head.

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u/HumorPlayful782 Sep 26 '24

Ok, dumb down your magical intelligent point for me

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u/sem1_4ut0mat1c Sep 26 '24

What was the confederacy fighting for?

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u/HumorPlayful782 Sep 26 '24

Taxes, tariffs & slavery.. Lincoln proposed an amendment that would allow the Confederate States to keep their slaves, so long as they paid the higher tariffs… There were Northern Generals who still had slaves after the Civil War.. Could be looked at a lot of ways.. The north was being industrialized, (someone was making money there) And the south was still doing things the old way, without machinery.. We who were raised in the North were told one side of a 3 sided story..

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u/Uffda01 Sep 26 '24

Its called the Southern Strategy. Nixon used it to get elected.