RKMBs Forums .::Important::. Politics and Current Events Alright, conservatives. What do you think about the Stars and Bars?

the south hasn't really been a republican stronghold for very long. up until about the time of goldwater - the most recent generally acknowledged polarity reversal between parties - southern politicians were heavily democrat and fighting against a civil-rights movement which happened to be populated with numerous republicans pushing for federal intervention. it's also important to remember that the GOP began right before the civil war as a (for the time) radical and classically liberal party in the industrialized north as a reaction to the conservative landed aristocracy of the democrat-dominated south. sometime between 1964 and 1968 everything got turned on its head, and the GOP of today can't exactly be accused of being too preoccupied with issues of tolerance, but one surprisingly overlooked bit of revisionism is the dems' decidedly spotty track record relating to black America.