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Democrats have a persistent problem in the South. Since the civil rights era, the party has been losing political strength in the region.
In the former Confederacy, Democrats currently have less than a third of congressional seats, three senators, two governors and not a single state legislature. It's a problem the party is aware of.
"The Democratic party in every one of the 11 Southern states of the Confederacy are minority parties now," said Donald Fowler, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee. "They have difficulty in electing any statewide officials."
In 2014, former Sen. Mary Landrieu lost her re-election campaign in Louisiana.
She was the last democratic senator in the Deep South, and media called it the extinction of the Southern Democrat.
The demise has at least something to do with race. Democrats started to lose ground among white voters in the South during the civil rights era. It's been a steady decline since.
Eight years ago in South Carolina, which holds the South's first Democratic primary, about 66 percent of white voters went Republican in the state's primaries. About 98 percent of nonwhite voters went Democrat, according to the South Carolina State Election Commission.
"Race is the No. 1 issue in the South," Fowler said. "Anyone, who for whatever reason, denies that that's the case, they just don't understand or they're trying to fool themselves or they're trying to fool you."
But there are some reasons for Democrats to be hopeful. The South is the region where the most new people are moving, which could bring change. Between 2014 and 2015, the South saw an increase in population by almost 1.4 million people.
But it would take something huge for a massive political shift to come anytime soon.
"If the Democrats are ever going to recapture the South, it's going to have to take something more than organization. You're going to have to change people's minds," Fowler said.
And because Democrats have already captured almost all minority voters in these states, they'll specifically have to change white people's minds.
Sources:
The Pew Charitable Trusts
http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2016/01/08/americans-are-moving-south-west-again
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In American politics, the Southern strategy refers to a Republican Party strategy of gaining political support for certain candidates in the Southern United States by appealing to racism against African Americans.
Though the "Solid South" had been a longtime Democratic Party stronghold due to the Democratic Party's defense of slavery before the American Civil War and segregation for a century thereafter, many white Southern Democrats stopped supporting the party following the civil rights plank of the Democratic campaign in 1948 (triggering the Dixiecrats), the African-American Civil Rights Movement, the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965, and desegregation.
The strategy was first adopted under future Republican President Richard Nixon and Republican Senator Barry Goldwater in the late 1960s. The strategy was successful in winning 5 formerly Confederate states in both the 1964 and 1968 presidential elections. It contributed to the electoral realignment of some Southern states to the Republican Party, but at the expense of losing more than 90 percent of black voters to the Democratic Party. As the twentieth century came to a close, the Republican Party began attempting to appeal to black voters again, though with little success.
Huey P. Newton, Shirley Chisholm, Andrew Young, and Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts had replaced Martin Luther King Jr. as some of the most prominent black leaders. By this point, King had won the Nobel Peace Prize and founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. His death was followed by rioting by African Americans in inner-city areas in major cities throughout the country. King’s policy of non-violence had already been challenged by other African-American leaders such as John Lewis and Stokely Carmichael of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The notion of Black Power advocated by SNCC leaders was quite effective in altering the mood of African-Americans. This attitude did much to raise the expectations of African Americans and also raised racial tensions.[25] Journalists reporting about the demonstrations against the Vietnam War often featured young people engaging in violence or burning draft cards and American flags.[26] There were also many young adults engaged in the drug culture and "free love" (sexual promiscuity), in what was called the "hippie" counter-culture. These actions scandalized many Americans and created a concern about law and order.
With the aid of Harry Dent and South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, who had switched parties in 1964, Richard Nixon ran his 1968 campaign on states' rights and "law and order." Progressives accused Nixon of pandering to Southern whites, especially with regard to his "states' rights" and "law and order" stands.[27]
The independent candidacy of George Wallace, former Democratic governor of Alabama, partially negated the Southern strategy.[28] With a much more explicit attack on integration and black civil rights, Wallace won all of Goldwater's states (except South Carolina), as well as Arkansas and one of North Carolina's electoral votes. Nixon picked up Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida, while Democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey's only southern state was Texas. Writer Jeffrey Hart who worked on the Nixon campaign as a speechwriter says that Nixon did not have a "Southern Strategy" but "Border State Strategy" as the campaign ceded the Deep South to George Wallace and that the press merely call it a "Southern Strategy" as they are "very lazy".
In 2005, Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman formally apologized to the NAACP for ignoring the black vote. However, two days after his address to the NAACP he characterized this as a general strategy, not particularly Southern: "It always interests me when people say it was a Southern strategy. The fact is that folks in the North, the South, the East and the West sometimes did this." [47]
Some commentators considered the decisive victory of Democratic Senator Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election and subsequent re-election in 2012 to represent the lessened influence of Southernization in national politics:
Wayne Parent, a political scientist at Louisiana State University, said that "The region’s absence from Mr. Obama’s winning formula means it's becoming distinctly less important,... The South has moved from being the center of the political universe to being an outside player in presidential politics."[41]
Thomas Schaller, a political scientist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, stated that the Republicans had become "a Southernized party.... They have completely marginalized themselves to a mostly regional party," noting that he believed Southernization was over and that the South was no longer needed to win national elections.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
- published: 21 Oct 2014
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New York Times' Jeff Zeleny talks to Jan Crawford about the state of Democrats in the South... Are they a dying species?
- published: 19 Oct 2010
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"State lawmakers in South Carolina are pushing for legislation that would mandate prayer sessions in schools. The bill, H. 3526, would require teachers to lead a moment of silence at the beginning of each school day, during which the teacher would be allowed to deliver a prayer. Students who didn't not want to participate would be allowed to leave the classroom."
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/02/south-carolina-democrats-back-bill-calling-for-mandatory-daily-prayers-in-public-schools/
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August 1: President Nixon recalls weighing his options after losing the support of three Southern Democrats on the Judiciary Committee. #APresidentResigns
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On the opening weekend of the Newseum’s newest exhibit, “1965: Civil Rights at 50,” Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and CBS News White House correspondent Bill Plante talk about their memories of the civil rights movement.
In this clip, Norton and Plante talk about the progression of the civil rights acts of 1964 and 1965, and how that affected the power structure of southern democrats in Congress.
See more at: http://www.newseum.org/event/inside-media-1965-civil-rights-at-50/#sthash.OJkY5JuC.dpuf
- published: 20 Jan 2015
- views: 89
Zo thinks the Confederate battle flag was the symbol of southern Democrats. So why are the Democrats ignoring their association with hate and slavery? Find out.
- published: 30 Jun 2015
- views: 38317
Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) used an appearance on Martin Bashir's MSNBC show Friday to criticize Republicans for their "intransigence" on the Affordable Care Act. But she did it in a unique way: by equating the modern-day GOP with Southern Democrats during the Civil Rights Movement.
Bashir began by asking Norton, in light of the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination, how civil rights legislation would ever have been able to move forward under today's congressional conditions. Instead of allowing a vote on immigration reform, Bashir said, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) "spends his time at his computer mocking" Obamacare "when we have 47 million people in this country who don't have health insurance, we have over 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country."
Norton indulged Bashir's line of questioning, while at the same time reminding him that things weren't so perfect back in the 1960s, and that then it was often Democrats standing in the way of change on civil rights issues. "The intransigence of Republicans today, particularly over issues that could be easily settled," she said, "reminds me of the intransigence of the Southern Democrats, who refused to move on civil rights until they had to."
She credited the 1963 March on Washington as not only "raising the hopes of Americans all over the country" but also forcing those Southern Democrats to take action on civil rights. "Only three months later," she recalled, "John F. Kennedy was dead."
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2:17Could Southern Democrats Rise Again? - Newsy
Could Southern Democrats Rise Again? - NewsyCould Southern Democrats Rise Again? - Newsy
Transcript: Democrats have a persistent problem in the South. Since the civil rights era, the party has been losing political strength in the region. In the former Confederacy, Democrats currently have less than a third of congressional seats, three senators, two governors and not a single state legislature. It's a problem the party is aware of. "The Democratic party in every one of the 11 Southern states of the Confederacy are minority parties now," said Donald Fowler, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee. "They have difficulty in electing any statewide officials." In 2014, former Sen. Mary Landrieu lost her re-election campaign in Louisiana. She was the last democratic senator in the Deep South, and media called it the extinction of the Southern Democrat. The demise has at least something to do with race. Democrats started to lose ground among white voters in the South during the civil rights era. It's been a steady decline since. Eight years ago in South Carolina, which holds the South's first Democratic primary, about 66 percent of white voters went Republican in the state's primaries. About 98 percent of nonwhite voters went Democrat, according to the South Carolina State Election Commission. "Race is the No. 1 issue in the South," Fowler said. "Anyone, who for whatever reason, denies that that's the case, they just don't understand or they're trying to fool themselves or they're trying to fool you." But there are some reasons for Democrats to be hopeful. The South is the region where the most new people are moving, which could bring change. Between 2014 and 2015, the South saw an increase in population by almost 1.4 million people. But it would take something huge for a massive political shift to come anytime soon. "If the Democrats are ever going to recapture the South, it's going to have to take something more than organization. You're going to have to change people's minds," Fowler said. And because Democrats have already captured almost all minority voters in these states, they'll specifically have to change white people's minds. Sources: The Pew Charitable Trusts http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2016/01/08/americans-are-moving-south-west-again ------------------------------------- Newsy is your source for concise, unbiased video news and analysis covering the top stories from around the world. With persistent curiosity and no agenda, we strive to fuel meaningful conversations by highlighting multiple sides of every story. Newsy delivers the news and perspective you need without the hype and bias common to many news sources. See more at http://www.newsy.com/ Like Newsy on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/newsyvideos/ -
2:27Democrats in the South
Democrats in the SouthDemocrats in the South
White Southern Democrats, once dominant, have all but vanished Subscribe NOW to The Economist: http://econ.st/1Fsu2Vj Get more The Economist Follow us: https://twitter.com/TheEconomist Like us: https://www.facebook.com/TheEconomist View photos: https://instagram.com/theeconomist/ The Economist videos give authoritative insight and opinion on international news, politics, business, finance, science, technology and the connections between them. -
55:49How the South Went Republican: Can Democrats Ever Win There Again? (1992)
How the South Went Republican: Can Democrats Ever Win There Again? (1992)How the South Went Republican: Can Democrats Ever Win There Again? (1992)
In American politics, the Southern strategy refers to a Republican Party strategy of gaining political support for certain candidates in the Southern United States by appealing to racism against African Americans. Though the "Solid South" had been a longtime Democratic Party stronghold due to the Democratic Party's defense of slavery before the American Civil War and segregation for a century thereafter, many white Southern Democrats stopped supporting the party following the civil rights plank of the Democratic campaign in 1948 (triggering the Dixiecrats), the African-American Civil Rights Movement, the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965, and desegregation. The strategy was first adopted under future Republican President Richard Nixon and Republican Senator Barry Goldwater in the late 1960s. The strategy was successful in winning 5 formerly Confederate states in both the 1964 and 1968 presidential elections. It contributed to the electoral realignment of some Southern states to the Republican Party, but at the expense of losing more than 90 percent of black voters to the Democratic Party. As the twentieth century came to a close, the Republican Party began attempting to appeal to black voters again, though with little success. Huey P. Newton, Shirley Chisholm, Andrew Young, and Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts had replaced Martin Luther King Jr. as some of the most prominent black leaders. By this point, King had won the Nobel Peace Prize and founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. His death was followed by rioting by African Americans in inner-city areas in major cities throughout the country. King’s policy of non-violence had already been challenged by other African-American leaders such as John Lewis and Stokely Carmichael of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The notion of Black Power advocated by SNCC leaders was quite effective in altering the mood of African-Americans. This attitude did much to raise the expectations of African Americans and also raised racial tensions.[25] Journalists reporting about the demonstrations against the Vietnam War often featured young people engaging in violence or burning draft cards and American flags.[26] There were also many young adults engaged in the drug culture and "free love" (sexual promiscuity), in what was called the "hippie" counter-culture. These actions scandalized many Americans and created a concern about law and order. With the aid of Harry Dent and South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, who had switched parties in 1964, Richard Nixon ran his 1968 campaign on states' rights and "law and order." Progressives accused Nixon of pandering to Southern whites, especially with regard to his "states' rights" and "law and order" stands.[27] The independent candidacy of George Wallace, former Democratic governor of Alabama, partially negated the Southern strategy.[28] With a much more explicit attack on integration and black civil rights, Wallace won all of Goldwater's states (except South Carolina), as well as Arkansas and one of North Carolina's electoral votes. Nixon picked up Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida, while Democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey's only southern state was Texas. Writer Jeffrey Hart who worked on the Nixon campaign as a speechwriter says that Nixon did not have a "Southern Strategy" but "Border State Strategy" as the campaign ceded the Deep South to George Wallace and that the press merely call it a "Southern Strategy" as they are "very lazy". In 2005, Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman formally apologized to the NAACP for ignoring the black vote. However, two days after his address to the NAACP he characterized this as a general strategy, not particularly Southern: "It always interests me when people say it was a Southern strategy. The fact is that folks in the North, the South, the East and the West sometimes did this." [47] Some commentators considered the decisive victory of Democratic Senator Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election and subsequent re-election in 2012 to represent the lessened influence of Southernization in national politics: Wayne Parent, a political scientist at Louisiana State University, said that "The region’s absence from Mr. Obama’s winning formula means it's becoming distinctly less important,... The South has moved from being the center of the political universe to being an outside player in presidential politics."[41] Thomas Schaller, a political scientist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, stated that the Republicans had become "a Southernized party.... They have completely marginalized themselves to a mostly regional party," noting that he believed Southernization was over and that the South was no longer needed to win national elections. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy -
5:54Southern Democrats Extinct?
Southern Democrats Extinct?Southern Democrats Extinct?
New York Times' Jeff Zeleny talks to Jan Crawford about the state of Democrats in the South... Are they a dying species? -
4:44Prayer In Public Schools Pushed By Southern Democrats
Prayer In Public Schools Pushed By Southern DemocratsPrayer In Public Schools Pushed By Southern Democrats
"State lawmakers in South Carolina are pushing for legislation that would mandate prayer sessions in schools. The bill, H. 3526, would require teachers to lead a moment of silence at the beginning of each school day, during which the teacher would be allowed to deliver a prayer. Students who didn't not want to participate would be allowed to leave the classroom." Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/02/south-carolina-democrats-back-bill-calling-for-mandatory-daily-prayers-in-public-schools/ Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/anakasparian), John Iadarola (http://www.twitter.com/jiadarola), Jimmy Dore (http://www.twitter.com/jimmy_dore) and Ben Mankiewicz (http://www.twitter.com/benmank77) of The Young Turks discuss the proposed law. Tell us what you think in the comment section below. Download audio and video of the full two hour show on-demand + the members-only post game show by becoming a member at http://www.tytnetwork.com/member-options/. Your membership supports the day to day operations and is vital for our continued success and growth. Join The Young Turks Network mailing list http://www.tytnetwork.com/member-options/register-subscriber/ or Support The Young Turks by Subscribing http://www.youtube.com/user/theyoungturks Like Us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TheYoungTurks Follow Us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/TheYoungTurks Support TYT for FREE by doing your Amazon shopping through this link (bookmark it!) http://www.amazon.com/?tag=theyoungturks-20 Buy TYT Merch: http://theyoungturks.spreadshirt.com/ -
4:56The End of Southern Democrats?
The End of Southern Democrats?The End of Southern Democrats?
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4:03President Nixon loses support of three Southern Democrats
President Nixon loses support of three Southern DemocratsPresident Nixon loses support of three Southern Democrats
August 1: President Nixon recalls weighing his options after losing the support of three Southern Democrats on the Judiciary Committee. #APresidentResigns * * * * * For more information, please visit the Nixon Library at www.nixonlibrary.gov or contact us at 714-983-9120 or nixon@nara.gov * * * * * The appearance of any advertisements on this website does not constitute an endorsement of any product or service nor does it reflect any official position taken by the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, the National Archives and Records Administration, or the United States Federal Government. -
2:161965: Civil Rights at 50 - Southern Democrats
1965: Civil Rights at 50 - Southern Democrats1965: Civil Rights at 50 - Southern Democrats
On the opening weekend of the Newseum’s newest exhibit, “1965: Civil Rights at 50,” Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and CBS News White House correspondent Bill Plante talk about their memories of the civil rights movement. In this clip, Norton and Plante talk about the progression of the civil rights acts of 1964 and 1965, and how that affected the power structure of southern democrats in Congress. See more at: http://www.newseum.org/event/inside-media-1965-civil-rights-at-50/#sthash.OJkY5JuC.dpuf -
5:26Democrats Flew The Confederate Battle Flag, Not Republicans | ZoNation
Democrats Flew The Confederate Battle Flag, Not Republicans | ZoNationDemocrats Flew The Confederate Battle Flag, Not Republicans | ZoNation
Zo thinks the Confederate battle flag was the symbol of southern Democrats. So why are the Democrats ignoring their association with hate and slavery? Find out. -
1:15Dem Rep. Compares GOP's Current 'Intransigence' to Southern Democrats on Civil Rights
Dem Rep. Compares GOP's Current 'Intransigence' to Southern Democrats on Civil RightsDem Rep. Compares GOP's Current 'Intransigence' to Southern Democrats on Civil Rights
Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) used an appearance on Martin Bashir's MSNBC show Friday to criticize Republicans for their "intransigence" on the Affordable Care Act. But she did it in a unique way: by equating the modern-day GOP with Southern Democrats during the Civil Rights Movement. Bashir began by asking Norton, in light of the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination, how civil rights legislation would ever have been able to move forward under today's congressional conditions. Instead of allowing a vote on immigration reform, Bashir said, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) "spends his time at his computer mocking" Obamacare "when we have 47 million people in this country who don't have health insurance, we have over 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country." Norton indulged Bashir's line of questioning, while at the same time reminding him that things weren't so perfect back in the 1960s, and that then it was often Democrats standing in the way of change on civil rights issues. "The intransigence of Republicans today, particularly over issues that could be easily settled," she said, "reminds me of the intransigence of the Southern Democrats, who refused to move on civil rights until they had to." She credited the 1963 March on Washington as not only "raising the hopes of Americans all over the country" but also forcing those Southern Democrats to take action on civil rights. "Only three months later," she recalled, "John F. Kennedy was dead."
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Could Southern Democrats Rise Again? - Newsy
Transcript: Democrats have a persistent problem in the South. Since the civil rights era, the party has been losing political strength in the region. In the former Confederacy, Democrats currently have less than a third of congressional seats, three senators, two governors and not a single state legislature. It's a problem the party is aware of. "The Democratic party in every one of the 11 Southern states of the Confederacy are minority parties now," said Donald Fowler, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee. "They have difficulty in electing any statewide officials." In 2014, former Sen. Mary Landrieu lost her re-election campaign in Louisiana. She was the last democratic senator in the Deep South, and media called it the extinction of the Southern Democrat. The demise has a... -
Democrats in the South
White Southern Democrats, once dominant, have all but vanished Subscribe NOW to The Economist: http://econ.st/1Fsu2Vj Get more The Economist Follow us: https://twitter.com/TheEconomist Like us: https://www.facebook.com/TheEconomist View photos: https://instagram.com/theeconomist/ The Economist videos give authoritative insight and opinion on international news, politics, business, finance, science, technology and the connections between them. -
How the South Went Republican: Can Democrats Ever Win There Again? (1992)
In American politics, the Southern strategy refers to a Republican Party strategy of gaining political support for certain candidates in the Southern United States by appealing to racism against African Americans. Though the "Solid South" had been a longtime Democratic Party stronghold due to the Democratic Party's defense of slavery before the American Civil War and segregation for a century thereafter, many white Southern Democrats stopped supporting the party following the civil rights plank of the Democratic campaign in 1948 (triggering the Dixiecrats), the African-American Civil Rights Movement, the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965, and desegregation. The strategy was first adopted under future Republican President Richard Nixon and Republican Se... -
Southern Democrats Extinct?
New York Times' Jeff Zeleny talks to Jan Crawford about the state of Democrats in the South... Are they a dying species? -
Prayer In Public Schools Pushed By Southern Democrats
"State lawmakers in South Carolina are pushing for legislation that would mandate prayer sessions in schools. The bill, H. 3526, would require teachers to lead a moment of silence at the beginning of each school day, during which the teacher would be allowed to deliver a prayer. Students who didn't not want to participate would be allowed to leave the classroom." Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/02/south-carolina-democrats-back-bill-calling-for-mandatory-daily-prayers-in-public-schools/ Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/anakasparian), John Iadarola (http://www.twitter.com/jiadarola), Jimmy Dore (http://www.twitter.com/jimmy_dore) and Ben Mankiewicz (http://www.twitter.com/benmank77) of The Young Turks discuss the proposed law. Tell us what you think in the comment sectio... -
The End of Southern Democrats?
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President Nixon loses support of three Southern Democrats
August 1: President Nixon recalls weighing his options after losing the support of three Southern Democrats on the Judiciary Committee. #APresidentResigns * * * * * For more information, please visit the Nixon Library at www.nixonlibrary.gov or contact us at 714-983-9120 or nixon@nara.gov * * * * * The appearance of any advertisements on this website does not constitute an endorsement of any product or service nor does it reflect any official position taken by the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, the National Archives and Records Administration, or the United States Federal Government. -
1965: Civil Rights at 50 - Southern Democrats
On the opening weekend of the Newseum’s newest exhibit, “1965: Civil Rights at 50,” Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and CBS News White House correspondent Bill Plante talk about their memories of the civil rights movement. In this clip, Norton and Plante talk about the progression of the civil rights acts of 1964 and 1965, and how that affected the power structure of southern democrats in Congress. See more at: http://www.newseum.org/event/inside-media-1965-civil-rights-at-50/#sthash.OJkY5JuC.dpuf -
Democrats Flew The Confederate Battle Flag, Not Republicans | ZoNation
Zo thinks the Confederate battle flag was the symbol of southern Democrats. So why are the Democrats ignoring their association with hate and slavery? Find out. -
Dem Rep. Compares GOP's Current 'Intransigence' to Southern Democrats on Civil Rights
Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) used an appearance on Martin Bashir's MSNBC show Friday to criticize Republicans for their "intransigence" on the Affordable Care Act. But she did it in a unique way: by equating the modern-day GOP with Southern Democrats during the Civil Rights Movement. Bashir began by asking Norton, in light of the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination, how civil rights legislation would ever have been able to move forward under today's congressional conditions. Instead of allowing a vote on immigration reform, Bashir said, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) "spends his time at his computer mocking" Obamacare "when we have 47 million people in this country who don't have health insurance, we have over 11 million undocumented immigrants in thi...
Could Southern Democrats Rise Again? - Newsy
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Transcript:
Democrats have a persistent problem in the South. Since the civil rights era, the party has been losing political strength in the region.
In the for...
Transcript:
Democrats have a persistent problem in the South. Since the civil rights era, the party has been losing political strength in the region.
In the former Confederacy, Democrats currently have less than a third of congressional seats, three senators, two governors and not a single state legislature. It's a problem the party is aware of.
"The Democratic party in every one of the 11 Southern states of the Confederacy are minority parties now," said Donald Fowler, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee. "They have difficulty in electing any statewide officials."
In 2014, former Sen. Mary Landrieu lost her re-election campaign in Louisiana.
She was the last democratic senator in the Deep South, and media called it the extinction of the Southern Democrat.
The demise has at least something to do with race. Democrats started to lose ground among white voters in the South during the civil rights era. It's been a steady decline since.
Eight years ago in South Carolina, which holds the South's first Democratic primary, about 66 percent of white voters went Republican in the state's primaries. About 98 percent of nonwhite voters went Democrat, according to the South Carolina State Election Commission.
"Race is the No. 1 issue in the South," Fowler said. "Anyone, who for whatever reason, denies that that's the case, they just don't understand or they're trying to fool themselves or they're trying to fool you."
But there are some reasons for Democrats to be hopeful. The South is the region where the most new people are moving, which could bring change. Between 2014 and 2015, the South saw an increase in population by almost 1.4 million people.
But it would take something huge for a massive political shift to come anytime soon.
"If the Democrats are ever going to recapture the South, it's going to have to take something more than organization. You're going to have to change people's minds," Fowler said.
And because Democrats have already captured almost all minority voters in these states, they'll specifically have to change white people's minds.
Sources:
The Pew Charitable Trusts
http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2016/01/08/americans-are-moving-south-west-again
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Transcript:
Democrats have a persistent problem in the South. Since the civil rights era, the party has been losing political strength in the region.
In the former Confederacy, Democrats currently have less than a third of congressional seats, three senators, two governors and not a single state legislature. It's a problem the party is aware of.
"The Democratic party in every one of the 11 Southern states of the Confederacy are minority parties now," said Donald Fowler, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee. "They have difficulty in electing any statewide officials."
In 2014, former Sen. Mary Landrieu lost her re-election campaign in Louisiana.
She was the last democratic senator in the Deep South, and media called it the extinction of the Southern Democrat.
The demise has at least something to do with race. Democrats started to lose ground among white voters in the South during the civil rights era. It's been a steady decline since.
Eight years ago in South Carolina, which holds the South's first Democratic primary, about 66 percent of white voters went Republican in the state's primaries. About 98 percent of nonwhite voters went Democrat, according to the South Carolina State Election Commission.
"Race is the No. 1 issue in the South," Fowler said. "Anyone, who for whatever reason, denies that that's the case, they just don't understand or they're trying to fool themselves or they're trying to fool you."
But there are some reasons for Democrats to be hopeful. The South is the region where the most new people are moving, which could bring change. Between 2014 and 2015, the South saw an increase in population by almost 1.4 million people.
But it would take something huge for a massive political shift to come anytime soon.
"If the Democrats are ever going to recapture the South, it's going to have to take something more than organization. You're going to have to change people's minds," Fowler said.
And because Democrats have already captured almost all minority voters in these states, they'll specifically have to change white people's minds.
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Democrats in the South
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White Southern Democrats, once dominant, have all but vanished
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How the South Went Republican: Can Democrats Ever Win There Again? (1992)
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In American politics, the Southern strategy refers to a Republican Party strategy of gaining political support for certain candidates in the Southern United Sta...
In American politics, the Southern strategy refers to a Republican Party strategy of gaining political support for certain candidates in the Southern United States by appealing to racism against African Americans.
Though the "Solid South" had been a longtime Democratic Party stronghold due to the Democratic Party's defense of slavery before the American Civil War and segregation for a century thereafter, many white Southern Democrats stopped supporting the party following the civil rights plank of the Democratic campaign in 1948 (triggering the Dixiecrats), the African-American Civil Rights Movement, the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965, and desegregation.
The strategy was first adopted under future Republican President Richard Nixon and Republican Senator Barry Goldwater in the late 1960s. The strategy was successful in winning 5 formerly Confederate states in both the 1964 and 1968 presidential elections. It contributed to the electoral realignment of some Southern states to the Republican Party, but at the expense of losing more than 90 percent of black voters to the Democratic Party. As the twentieth century came to a close, the Republican Party began attempting to appeal to black voters again, though with little success.
Huey P. Newton, Shirley Chisholm, Andrew Young, and Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts had replaced Martin Luther King Jr. as some of the most prominent black leaders. By this point, King had won the Nobel Peace Prize and founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. His death was followed by rioting by African Americans in inner-city areas in major cities throughout the country. King’s policy of non-violence had already been challenged by other African-American leaders such as John Lewis and Stokely Carmichael of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The notion of Black Power advocated by SNCC leaders was quite effective in altering the mood of African-Americans. This attitude did much to raise the expectations of African Americans and also raised racial tensions.[25] Journalists reporting about the demonstrations against the Vietnam War often featured young people engaging in violence or burning draft cards and American flags.[26] There were also many young adults engaged in the drug culture and "free love" (sexual promiscuity), in what was called the "hippie" counter-culture. These actions scandalized many Americans and created a concern about law and order.
With the aid of Harry Dent and South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, who had switched parties in 1964, Richard Nixon ran his 1968 campaign on states' rights and "law and order." Progressives accused Nixon of pandering to Southern whites, especially with regard to his "states' rights" and "law and order" stands.[27]
The independent candidacy of George Wallace, former Democratic governor of Alabama, partially negated the Southern strategy.[28] With a much more explicit attack on integration and black civil rights, Wallace won all of Goldwater's states (except South Carolina), as well as Arkansas and one of North Carolina's electoral votes. Nixon picked up Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida, while Democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey's only southern state was Texas. Writer Jeffrey Hart who worked on the Nixon campaign as a speechwriter says that Nixon did not have a "Southern Strategy" but "Border State Strategy" as the campaign ceded the Deep South to George Wallace and that the press merely call it a "Southern Strategy" as they are "very lazy".
In 2005, Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman formally apologized to the NAACP for ignoring the black vote. However, two days after his address to the NAACP he characterized this as a general strategy, not particularly Southern: "It always interests me when people say it was a Southern strategy. The fact is that folks in the North, the South, the East and the West sometimes did this." [47]
Some commentators considered the decisive victory of Democratic Senator Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election and subsequent re-election in 2012 to represent the lessened influence of Southernization in national politics:
Wayne Parent, a political scientist at Louisiana State University, said that "The region’s absence from Mr. Obama’s winning formula means it's becoming distinctly less important,... The South has moved from being the center of the political universe to being an outside player in presidential politics."[41]
Thomas Schaller, a political scientist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, stated that the Republicans had become "a Southernized party.... They have completely marginalized themselves to a mostly regional party," noting that he believed Southernization was over and that the South was no longer needed to win national elections.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
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In American politics, the Southern strategy refers to a Republican Party strategy of gaining political support for certain candidates in the Southern United States by appealing to racism against African Americans.
Though the "Solid South" had been a longtime Democratic Party stronghold due to the Democratic Party's defense of slavery before the American Civil War and segregation for a century thereafter, many white Southern Democrats stopped supporting the party following the civil rights plank of the Democratic campaign in 1948 (triggering the Dixiecrats), the African-American Civil Rights Movement, the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965, and desegregation.
The strategy was first adopted under future Republican President Richard Nixon and Republican Senator Barry Goldwater in the late 1960s. The strategy was successful in winning 5 formerly Confederate states in both the 1964 and 1968 presidential elections. It contributed to the electoral realignment of some Southern states to the Republican Party, but at the expense of losing more than 90 percent of black voters to the Democratic Party. As the twentieth century came to a close, the Republican Party began attempting to appeal to black voters again, though with little success.
Huey P. Newton, Shirley Chisholm, Andrew Young, and Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts had replaced Martin Luther King Jr. as some of the most prominent black leaders. By this point, King had won the Nobel Peace Prize and founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. His death was followed by rioting by African Americans in inner-city areas in major cities throughout the country. King’s policy of non-violence had already been challenged by other African-American leaders such as John Lewis and Stokely Carmichael of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The notion of Black Power advocated by SNCC leaders was quite effective in altering the mood of African-Americans. This attitude did much to raise the expectations of African Americans and also raised racial tensions.[25] Journalists reporting about the demonstrations against the Vietnam War often featured young people engaging in violence or burning draft cards and American flags.[26] There were also many young adults engaged in the drug culture and "free love" (sexual promiscuity), in what was called the "hippie" counter-culture. These actions scandalized many Americans and created a concern about law and order.
With the aid of Harry Dent and South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, who had switched parties in 1964, Richard Nixon ran his 1968 campaign on states' rights and "law and order." Progressives accused Nixon of pandering to Southern whites, especially with regard to his "states' rights" and "law and order" stands.[27]
The independent candidacy of George Wallace, former Democratic governor of Alabama, partially negated the Southern strategy.[28] With a much more explicit attack on integration and black civil rights, Wallace won all of Goldwater's states (except South Carolina), as well as Arkansas and one of North Carolina's electoral votes. Nixon picked up Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida, while Democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey's only southern state was Texas. Writer Jeffrey Hart who worked on the Nixon campaign as a speechwriter says that Nixon did not have a "Southern Strategy" but "Border State Strategy" as the campaign ceded the Deep South to George Wallace and that the press merely call it a "Southern Strategy" as they are "very lazy".
In 2005, Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman formally apologized to the NAACP for ignoring the black vote. However, two days after his address to the NAACP he characterized this as a general strategy, not particularly Southern: "It always interests me when people say it was a Southern strategy. The fact is that folks in the North, the South, the East and the West sometimes did this." [47]
Some commentators considered the decisive victory of Democratic Senator Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election and subsequent re-election in 2012 to represent the lessened influence of Southernization in national politics:
Wayne Parent, a political scientist at Louisiana State University, said that "The region’s absence from Mr. Obama’s winning formula means it's becoming distinctly less important,... The South has moved from being the center of the political universe to being an outside player in presidential politics."[41]
Thomas Schaller, a political scientist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, stated that the Republicans had become "a Southernized party.... They have completely marginalized themselves to a mostly regional party," noting that he believed Southernization was over and that the South was no longer needed to win national elections.
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Southern Democrats Extinct?
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- Updated: 19 Oct 2010
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New York Times' Jeff Zeleny talks to Jan Crawford about the state of Democrats in the South... Are they a dying species?
New York Times' Jeff Zeleny talks to Jan Crawford about the state of Democrats in the South... Are they a dying species?
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New York Times' Jeff Zeleny talks to Jan Crawford about the state of Democrats in the South... Are they a dying species?
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Prayer In Public Schools Pushed By Southern Democrats
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"State lawmakers in South Carolina are pushing for legislation that would mandate prayer sessions in schools. The bill, H. 3526, would require teachers to lead ...
"State lawmakers in South Carolina are pushing for legislation that would mandate prayer sessions in schools. The bill, H. 3526, would require teachers to lead a moment of silence at the beginning of each school day, during which the teacher would be allowed to deliver a prayer. Students who didn't not want to participate would be allowed to leave the classroom."
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"State lawmakers in South Carolina are pushing for legislation that would mandate prayer sessions in schools. The bill, H. 3526, would require teachers to lead a moment of silence at the beginning of each school day, during which the teacher would be allowed to deliver a prayer. Students who didn't not want to participate would be allowed to leave the classroom."
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/02/south-carolina-democrats-back-bill-calling-for-mandatory-daily-prayers-in-public-schools/
Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/anakasparian), John Iadarola (http://www.twitter.com/jiadarola), Jimmy Dore (http://www.twitter.com/jimmy_dore) and Ben Mankiewicz (http://www.twitter.com/benmank77) of The Young Turks discuss the proposed law. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
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The End of Southern Democrats?
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- Updated: 10 Dec 2014
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- published: 10 Dec 2014
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President Nixon loses support of three Southern Democrats
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- Updated: 05 Aug 2014
- views: 2021
August 1: President Nixon recalls weighing his options after losing the support of three Southern Democrats on the Judiciary Committee. #APresidentResigns
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August 1: President Nixon recalls weighing his options after losing the support of three Southern Democrats on the Judiciary Committee. #APresidentResigns
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August 1: President Nixon recalls weighing his options after losing the support of three Southern Democrats on the Judiciary Committee. #APresidentResigns
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1965: Civil Rights at 50 - Southern Democrats
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- Updated: 20 Jan 2015
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On the opening weekend of the Newseum’s newest exhibit, “1965: Civil Rights at 50,” Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and CBS News White House correspondent B...
On the opening weekend of the Newseum’s newest exhibit, “1965: Civil Rights at 50,” Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and CBS News White House correspondent Bill Plante talk about their memories of the civil rights movement.
In this clip, Norton and Plante talk about the progression of the civil rights acts of 1964 and 1965, and how that affected the power structure of southern democrats in Congress.
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On the opening weekend of the Newseum’s newest exhibit, “1965: Civil Rights at 50,” Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton and CBS News White House correspondent Bill Plante talk about their memories of the civil rights movement.
In this clip, Norton and Plante talk about the progression of the civil rights acts of 1964 and 1965, and how that affected the power structure of southern democrats in Congress.
See more at: http://www.newseum.org/event/inside-media-1965-civil-rights-at-50/#sthash.OJkY5JuC.dpuf
- published: 20 Jan 2015
- views: 89
Democrats Flew The Confederate Battle Flag, Not Republicans | ZoNation
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- Updated: 30 Jun 2015
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Zo thinks the Confederate battle flag was the symbol of southern Democrats. So why are the Democrats ignoring their association with hate and slavery? Find out....
Zo thinks the Confederate battle flag was the symbol of southern Democrats. So why are the Democrats ignoring their association with hate and slavery? Find out.
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Zo thinks the Confederate battle flag was the symbol of southern Democrats. So why are the Democrats ignoring their association with hate and slavery? Find out.
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Dem Rep. Compares GOP's Current 'Intransigence' to Southern Democrats on Civil Rights
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Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) used an appearance on Martin Bashir's MSNBC show Friday to criticize Republicans for their "intransigence" on the Affordab...
Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) used an appearance on Martin Bashir's MSNBC show Friday to criticize Republicans for their "intransigence" on the Affordable Care Act. But she did it in a unique way: by equating the modern-day GOP with Southern Democrats during the Civil Rights Movement.
Bashir began by asking Norton, in light of the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination, how civil rights legislation would ever have been able to move forward under today's congressional conditions. Instead of allowing a vote on immigration reform, Bashir said, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) "spends his time at his computer mocking" Obamacare "when we have 47 million people in this country who don't have health insurance, we have over 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country."
Norton indulged Bashir's line of questioning, while at the same time reminding him that things weren't so perfect back in the 1960s, and that then it was often Democrats standing in the way of change on civil rights issues. "The intransigence of Republicans today, particularly over issues that could be easily settled," she said, "reminds me of the intransigence of the Southern Democrats, who refused to move on civil rights until they had to."
She credited the 1963 March on Washington as not only "raising the hopes of Americans all over the country" but also forcing those Southern Democrats to take action on civil rights. "Only three months later," she recalled, "John F. Kennedy was dead."
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Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) used an appearance on Martin Bashir's MSNBC show Friday to criticize Republicans for their "intransigence" on the Affordable Care Act. But she did it in a unique way: by equating the modern-day GOP with Southern Democrats during the Civil Rights Movement.
Bashir began by asking Norton, in light of the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination, how civil rights legislation would ever have been able to move forward under today's congressional conditions. Instead of allowing a vote on immigration reform, Bashir said, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) "spends his time at his computer mocking" Obamacare "when we have 47 million people in this country who don't have health insurance, we have over 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country."
Norton indulged Bashir's line of questioning, while at the same time reminding him that things weren't so perfect back in the 1960s, and that then it was often Democrats standing in the way of change on civil rights issues. "The intransigence of Republicans today, particularly over issues that could be easily settled," she said, "reminds me of the intransigence of the Southern Democrats, who refused to move on civil rights until they had to."
She credited the 1963 March on Washington as not only "raising the hopes of Americans all over the country" but also forcing those Southern Democrats to take action on civil rights. "Only three months later," she recalled, "John F. Kennedy was dead."
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On Southern Democrats' Letter to Bernie, Including our own Criticisms
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What's the Matter with the Democratic Party? Why Democrats Face Defeat (1991)
Democrats who supported many conservative policies were instrumental in the election of Republican President Ronald Reagan in 1980. The "Reagan Democrats" were Democrats before the Reagan years, and afterward, but they voted for Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984 (and for George H. W. Bush in 1988), producing their landslide victories. Reagan Democrats were mostly white ethnics in the Northeast and Midwest who were attracted to Reagan's social conservatism on issues such as abortion, and to his strong foreign policy. They did not continue to vote Republican in 1992 or 1996, so the term fell into disuse except as a reference to the 1980s. The term is not used to describe southern whites who became permanent Republicans in presidential elections.[44] Stanley Greenberg, a Democratic pollster, an... -
Republicans, Democrats Face off in Crucial Southern State
To gain a majority in the U.S. Senate this fall, Republicans will need to defeat a handful of Democratic candidates in several close races. One such race is in the U.S. state of Georgia, where Michelle Nunn, the daughter of former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn, and David Purdue, the son of former Governor Sonny Purdue, are battling for each vote. As VOA’s Kane Farabaugh reports, Georgia’s growing minority voters could play a key role in the election, or a subsequent run-off. Originally published at - http://www.voanews.com/media/video/republicans-democrats-face-off-in-crucial-southern-state/2485955.html -
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President Nixon loses support of three Southern Democrats
Watch Nixon recall the loss of the support of three Southern Democrats and his choice to resign in a video recently released by the Nixon Library.
On Southern Democrats' Letter to Bernie, Including our own Criticisms
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What's the Matter with the Democratic Party? Why Democrats Face Defeat (1991)
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- Duration: 43:34
- Updated: 19 Oct 2014
- views: 635
Democrats who supported many conservative policies were instrumental in the election of Republican President Ronald Reagan in 1980. The "Reagan Democrats" were ...
Democrats who supported many conservative policies were instrumental in the election of Republican President Ronald Reagan in 1980. The "Reagan Democrats" were Democrats before the Reagan years, and afterward, but they voted for Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984 (and for George H. W. Bush in 1988), producing their landslide victories. Reagan Democrats were mostly white ethnics in the Northeast and Midwest who were attracted to Reagan's social conservatism on issues such as abortion, and to his strong foreign policy. They did not continue to vote Republican in 1992 or 1996, so the term fell into disuse except as a reference to the 1980s. The term is not used to describe southern whites who became permanent Republicans in presidential elections.[44]
Stanley Greenberg, a Democratic pollster, analyzed white ethnic voters — largely unionized auto workers — in suburban Macomb County, Michigan, just north of Detroit. The county voted 63 percent for Kennedy in 1960 and 66 percent for Reagan in 1984. He concluded that Reagan Democrats no longer saw Democrats as champions of their middle class aspirations, but instead saw it as a party working primarily for the benefit of others, especially African Americans, advocacy groups of the political left, and the very poor.[44]
The failure to hold the Reagan Democrats and the white South led to the final collapse of the New Deal coalition. Reagan carried 49 states against former Vice President and Minnesota Senator Walter Mondale, a New Deal stalwart, in 1984.[45]
In response to these landslide defeats, the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) was created in 1985. It worked to move the party rightwards to the ideological center in order to recover some of the fundraising that had been lost to the Republicans due to corporate donors supporting Reagan. The goal was to retain left-of-center voters as well as moderates and conservatives on social issues, to become a catch all party with widespread appeal to most opponents of the Republicans. Despite this, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, running not as a New Dealer but as an efficiency expert in public administration, lost by a landslide in 1988 to Vice President George H. W. Bush.
For nearly a century after Reconstruction, the white South identified with the Democratic Party. The Democrats' lock on power was so strong the region was called the Solid South, although the Republicans controlled parts of the Appalachian mountains and they competed for statewide office in the border states. Before 1948, southern Democrats believed that their party, with its respect for states' rights and appreciation of traditional southern values, was the defender of the southern way of life. Southern Democrats warned against aggressive designs on the part of Northern liberals and Republicans and civil rights activists whom they denounced as "outside agitators."
The adoption of the strong civil rights plank by the 1948 convention and the integration of the armed forces by President Harry S. Truman's Executive Order 9981, which provided for equal treatment and opportunity for African-American servicemen, drove a wedge between the northern and southern branches of the party.
With the presidency of John F. Kennedy the Democratic Party began to embrace the civil rights movement, and its lock on the South was irretrievably broken. Upon signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson prophesied, "We have lost the South for a generation."[47]
Modernization had brought factories, national businesses, and larger, more cosmopolitan cities such as Atlanta, Dallas, Charlotte, and Houston to the South, as well as millions of migrants from the North and more opportunities for higher education. Meanwhile, the cotton and tobacco economy of the traditional rural South faded away, as former farmers commuted to factory jobs. As the South became more like the rest of the nation, it could not stand apart in terms of racial segregation.
Integration and the civil rights movement caused enormous controversy in the white South, with many attacking it as a violation of states' rights. When segregation was outlawed by court order and by the Civil Rights acts of 1964 and 1965, a die-hard element resisted integration, led by Democratic governors Orval Faubus of Arkansas, Lester Maddox of Georgia, and especially George Wallace of Alabama. These populist governors appealed to a less-educated, blue-collar electorate that on economic grounds favored the Democratic Party, but opposed desegregation. After 1965 most Southerners accepted integration (with the exception of public schools).
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wn.com/What's The Matter With The Democratic Party Why Democrats Face Defeat (1991)
Democrats who supported many conservative policies were instrumental in the election of Republican President Ronald Reagan in 1980. The "Reagan Democrats" were Democrats before the Reagan years, and afterward, but they voted for Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984 (and for George H. W. Bush in 1988), producing their landslide victories. Reagan Democrats were mostly white ethnics in the Northeast and Midwest who were attracted to Reagan's social conservatism on issues such as abortion, and to his strong foreign policy. They did not continue to vote Republican in 1992 or 1996, so the term fell into disuse except as a reference to the 1980s. The term is not used to describe southern whites who became permanent Republicans in presidential elections.[44]
Stanley Greenberg, a Democratic pollster, analyzed white ethnic voters — largely unionized auto workers — in suburban Macomb County, Michigan, just north of Detroit. The county voted 63 percent for Kennedy in 1960 and 66 percent for Reagan in 1984. He concluded that Reagan Democrats no longer saw Democrats as champions of their middle class aspirations, but instead saw it as a party working primarily for the benefit of others, especially African Americans, advocacy groups of the political left, and the very poor.[44]
The failure to hold the Reagan Democrats and the white South led to the final collapse of the New Deal coalition. Reagan carried 49 states against former Vice President and Minnesota Senator Walter Mondale, a New Deal stalwart, in 1984.[45]
In response to these landslide defeats, the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) was created in 1985. It worked to move the party rightwards to the ideological center in order to recover some of the fundraising that had been lost to the Republicans due to corporate donors supporting Reagan. The goal was to retain left-of-center voters as well as moderates and conservatives on social issues, to become a catch all party with widespread appeal to most opponents of the Republicans. Despite this, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, running not as a New Dealer but as an efficiency expert in public administration, lost by a landslide in 1988 to Vice President George H. W. Bush.
For nearly a century after Reconstruction, the white South identified with the Democratic Party. The Democrats' lock on power was so strong the region was called the Solid South, although the Republicans controlled parts of the Appalachian mountains and they competed for statewide office in the border states. Before 1948, southern Democrats believed that their party, with its respect for states' rights and appreciation of traditional southern values, was the defender of the southern way of life. Southern Democrats warned against aggressive designs on the part of Northern liberals and Republicans and civil rights activists whom they denounced as "outside agitators."
The adoption of the strong civil rights plank by the 1948 convention and the integration of the armed forces by President Harry S. Truman's Executive Order 9981, which provided for equal treatment and opportunity for African-American servicemen, drove a wedge between the northern and southern branches of the party.
With the presidency of John F. Kennedy the Democratic Party began to embrace the civil rights movement, and its lock on the South was irretrievably broken. Upon signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson prophesied, "We have lost the South for a generation."[47]
Modernization had brought factories, national businesses, and larger, more cosmopolitan cities such as Atlanta, Dallas, Charlotte, and Houston to the South, as well as millions of migrants from the North and more opportunities for higher education. Meanwhile, the cotton and tobacco economy of the traditional rural South faded away, as former farmers commuted to factory jobs. As the South became more like the rest of the nation, it could not stand apart in terms of racial segregation.
Integration and the civil rights movement caused enormous controversy in the white South, with many attacking it as a violation of states' rights. When segregation was outlawed by court order and by the Civil Rights acts of 1964 and 1965, a die-hard element resisted integration, led by Democratic governors Orval Faubus of Arkansas, Lester Maddox of Georgia, and especially George Wallace of Alabama. These populist governors appealed to a less-educated, blue-collar electorate that on economic grounds favored the Democratic Party, but opposed desegregation. After 1965 most Southerners accepted integration (with the exception of public schools).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_Democratic_Party
- published: 19 Oct 2014
- views: 635
Republicans, Democrats Face off in Crucial Southern State
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- Duration: 3:05
- Updated: 16 Oct 2014
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To gain a majority in the U.S. Senate this fall, Republicans will need to defeat a handful of Democratic candidates in several close races. One such race is in...
To gain a majority in the U.S. Senate this fall, Republicans will need to defeat a handful of Democratic candidates in several close races. One such race is in the U.S. state of Georgia, where Michelle Nunn, the daughter of former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn, and David Purdue, the son of former Governor Sonny Purdue, are battling for each vote. As VOA’s Kane Farabaugh reports, Georgia’s growing minority voters could play a key role in the election, or a subsequent run-off.
Originally published at - http://www.voanews.com/media/video/republicans-democrats-face-off-in-crucial-southern-state/2485955.html
wn.com/Republicans, Democrats Face Off In Crucial Southern State
To gain a majority in the U.S. Senate this fall, Republicans will need to defeat a handful of Democratic candidates in several close races. One such race is in the U.S. state of Georgia, where Michelle Nunn, the daughter of former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn, and David Purdue, the son of former Governor Sonny Purdue, are battling for each vote. As VOA’s Kane Farabaugh reports, Georgia’s growing minority voters could play a key role in the election, or a subsequent run-off.
Originally published at - http://www.voanews.com/media/video/republicans-democrats-face-off-in-crucial-southern-state/2485955.html
- published: 16 Oct 2014
- views: 223
Southern Democrats Need Black Voters to Win
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- Updated: 06 Oct 2014
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President Nixon loses support of three Southern Democrats
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- Duration: 4:03
- Updated: 05 Aug 2014
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Watch Nixon recall the loss of the support of three Southern Democrats and his choice to resign in a video recently released by the Nixon Library.
Watch Nixon recall the loss of the support of three Southern Democrats and his choice to resign in a video recently released by the Nixon Library.
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Watch Nixon recall the loss of the support of three Southern Democrats and his choice to resign in a video recently released by the Nixon Library.
- published: 05 Aug 2014
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Christopher Hitchens: Southern Strategy, Savings & Loan Scandal, Cuba Hotels & Tourism (2000)
In American politics, the Southern strategy refers to a Republican Party strategy of gaining political support for certain candidates in the Southern United States by appealing to racism against African Americans. Though the "Solid South" had been a longtime Democratic Party stronghold due to the Democratic Party's defense of slavery before the American Civil War and segregation for a century thereafter, many white Southern Democrats stopped supporting the party following the civil rights plank of the Democratic campaign in 1948 (triggering the Dixiecrats), the African-American Civil Rights Movement, the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965, and desegregation. The strategy was first adopted under future Republican President Richard Nixon and Republican Se... -
Full Show - Democrats Push To Destroy Civil Liberty - 06/23/2016
On this Thursday, June 23 edition of the Alex Jones Show, we cover the absurd “sit-in” by elected representatives in the House as Democrats move to the next phase in the effort to strip Americans of their constitutional rights. We also cover the Brexit vote and the possibility it will be manipulated in favor of the EU, new revelations in the Orlando shooting, and a declaration by the German president that the elites are not the problem, the population is. Help us spread the word about the liberty movement, we're reaching millions help us reach millions more. Share the free live video feed link with your friends & family: http://www.infowars.com/show Follow Alex on TWITTER - https://twitter.com/RealAlexJones Like Alex on FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/AlexanderEmerickJones Infowars ... -
The GOP's New Southern Strategy (w/ Ari Berman)
On yesterday's show, The Nation's Ari Berman explains why the Republicans backing down on their latest extortion efforts is not a big victory for Democrats, why Republicans only cater to the far right extreme, the southern domination of the modern Republican Party, why modern conservative politics is all about fighting demographics, how Arizona and Kansas are expanding voter suppression tactics and why the Supreme Court made the burden of proving voter discrimination harder. This clip from the Majority Report, live M-F at 12 noon EST and via daily podcast at http://Majority.FM Subscribe to us on YouTube: http://youtube.com/user/SamSeder -
FULL Democratic Debate: Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton Face Off In New Hampshire | MSNBC
In the latest Democratic Debate in New Hampshire, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton got into a number of heated exchanges. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About: MSNBC is the premier destination for in-depth analysis of daily headlines, insightful political commentary and informed perspectives. Reaching more than 95 million households worldwide, MSNBC offers a full schedule of live news coverage, political opinions and award-winning documentary programming -- 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Connect with MSNBC Online Visit msnbc.com: http://on.msnbc.com/Readmsnbc Find MSNBC on Facebook: http://on.msnbc.com/Likemsnbc Follow MSNBC on Twitter: http://on.msnbc.com/Followmsnbc Follow MSNBC on Google+: http://on.msnbc.com/Plusmsnbc Follow MSNBC on Instagram: http://on... -
ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S 1st Inaugural Address - FULL AudioBook | GreatestAudioBooks.com
ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S 1st Inaugural Address - FULL AudioBook | GreatestAudioBooks.com - On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge of the Southern Democrats, and John Bell of the new Constitutional Union Party. He was the first president from the Republican Party. His victory was entirely due to the strength of his support in the North and West; no ballots were cast for him in 10 of the 15 Southern slave states, and he won only two of 996 counties in all the Southern states. Lincoln received 1,866,452 votes, Douglas 1,376,957 votes, Breckinridge 849,781 votes, and Bell 588,789 votes. Turnout was 82.2 percent, with Lincoln winning the free Northern states, as well as California and Oregon. Douglas ... -
Live! Democratic Debate Recap. What Bernie and Hillary Need. RIP Southern Strategy
Recap of Debate. Highs and Lows Call in: 857-600-0518 What Does Bernie need to do? Thanks BlackLivesMatter. What about Hillary? Jim Webb is a throwback Dixiecrat. Republicans continue to fall apart. The end of the Southern Strategy http://t.co/aobB7HZgHw -
The Democratic Promise of Public Work: Economy, Education, Citizenship (1997)
The New Deal was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1936, and a few that came later. They included both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term (1933–37) of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The programs were in response to the Great Depression, and focused on what historians call the "3 Rs": Relief, Recovery, and Reform. That is Relief for the unemployed and poor; Recovery of the economy to normal levels; and Reform of the financial system to prevent a repeat depression.[1] The New Deal produced a political realignment, making the Democratic Party the majority (as well as the party that held the White House for seven out of nine Presidential terms from 1933 to 1969), with its base in liberal ideas, the... -
Stonewall Democrats Candidate forum - Nevada Congressional District 3
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Christopher Hitchens: Southern Strategy, Savings & Loan Scandal, Cuba Hotels & Tourism (2000)
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- Duration: 60:30
- Updated: 13 Oct 2014
- views: 5246
In American politics, the Southern strategy refers to a Republican Party strategy of gaining political support for certain candidates in the Southern United Sta...
In American politics, the Southern strategy refers to a Republican Party strategy of gaining political support for certain candidates in the Southern United States by appealing to racism against African Americans.
Though the "Solid South" had been a longtime Democratic Party stronghold due to the Democratic Party's defense of slavery before the American Civil War and segregation for a century thereafter, many white Southern Democrats stopped supporting the party following the civil rights plank of the Democratic campaign in 1948 (triggering the Dixiecrats), the African-American Civil Rights Movement, the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965, and desegregation.
The strategy was first adopted under future Republican President Richard Nixon and Republican Senator Barry Goldwater in the late 1960s. The strategy was successful in winning 5 formerly Confederate states in both the 1964 and 1968 presidential elections. It contributed to the electoral realignment of some Southern states to the Republican Party, but at the expense of losing more than 90 percent of black voters to the Democratic Party. As the twentieth century came to a close, the Republican Party began trying to appeal again to black voters, though with little success.
In 2005, Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman acknowledged the Southern strategy and formally apologized to the NAACP for ignoring the black vote in the previous century.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Strategy
Tourism in Cuba is an industry that generates over 3 million arrivals per year, and is one of the main sources of revenue for the island. With its favorable climate, beaches, colonial architecture and distinct cultural history, Cuba has long been an attractive destination for tourists. Having been Spain's last, oldest, and closest colony until 1901, in the first part of the 20th century Cuba continued to benefit from big investments, creation of industries, and immigration. Its proximity and close relation to the United States also helped Cuba's market economy prosper fairly quickly. As relations between Cuba and the United States deteriorated rapidly after the Cuban Revolution and the resulting expropriation and nationalisation of businesses, the island became cut off from its traditional market by an embargo and a travel ban was imposed on U.S. citizens visiting Cuba. The tourist industry declined to record low levels within two years of Castro's accession to power. By the mid-1960s the Communist government had banned and eliminated all private property, outlawed the possession of foreign currency, and eliminated the tourist industry all together.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_Cuba
wn.com/Christopher Hitchens Southern Strategy, Savings Loan Scandal, Cuba Hotels Tourism (2000)
In American politics, the Southern strategy refers to a Republican Party strategy of gaining political support for certain candidates in the Southern United States by appealing to racism against African Americans.
Though the "Solid South" had been a longtime Democratic Party stronghold due to the Democratic Party's defense of slavery before the American Civil War and segregation for a century thereafter, many white Southern Democrats stopped supporting the party following the civil rights plank of the Democratic campaign in 1948 (triggering the Dixiecrats), the African-American Civil Rights Movement, the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965, and desegregation.
The strategy was first adopted under future Republican President Richard Nixon and Republican Senator Barry Goldwater in the late 1960s. The strategy was successful in winning 5 formerly Confederate states in both the 1964 and 1968 presidential elections. It contributed to the electoral realignment of some Southern states to the Republican Party, but at the expense of losing more than 90 percent of black voters to the Democratic Party. As the twentieth century came to a close, the Republican Party began trying to appeal again to black voters, though with little success.
In 2005, Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman acknowledged the Southern strategy and formally apologized to the NAACP for ignoring the black vote in the previous century.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Strategy
Tourism in Cuba is an industry that generates over 3 million arrivals per year, and is one of the main sources of revenue for the island. With its favorable climate, beaches, colonial architecture and distinct cultural history, Cuba has long been an attractive destination for tourists. Having been Spain's last, oldest, and closest colony until 1901, in the first part of the 20th century Cuba continued to benefit from big investments, creation of industries, and immigration. Its proximity and close relation to the United States also helped Cuba's market economy prosper fairly quickly. As relations between Cuba and the United States deteriorated rapidly after the Cuban Revolution and the resulting expropriation and nationalisation of businesses, the island became cut off from its traditional market by an embargo and a travel ban was imposed on U.S. citizens visiting Cuba. The tourist industry declined to record low levels within two years of Castro's accession to power. By the mid-1960s the Communist government had banned and eliminated all private property, outlawed the possession of foreign currency, and eliminated the tourist industry all together.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_Cuba
- published: 13 Oct 2014
- views: 5246
Full Show - Democrats Push To Destroy Civil Liberty - 06/23/2016
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On this Thursday, June 23 edition of the Alex Jones Show, we cover the absurd “sit-in” by elected representatives in the House as Democrats move to the next pha...
On this Thursday, June 23 edition of the Alex Jones Show, we cover the absurd “sit-in” by elected representatives in the House as Democrats move to the next phase in the effort to strip Americans of their constitutional rights. We also cover the Brexit vote and the possibility it will be manipulated in favor of the EU, new revelations in the Orlando shooting, and a declaration by the German president that the elites are not the problem, the population is.
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The GOP's New Southern Strategy (w/ Ari Berman)
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- Updated: 18 Oct 2013
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On yesterday's show, The Nation's Ari Berman explains why the Republicans backing down on their latest extortion efforts is not a big victory for Democrats, why...
On yesterday's show, The Nation's Ari Berman explains why the Republicans backing down on their latest extortion efforts is not a big victory for Democrats, why Republicans only cater to the far right extreme, the southern domination of the modern Republican Party, why modern conservative politics is all about fighting demographics, how Arizona and Kansas are expanding voter suppression tactics and why the Supreme Court made the burden of proving voter discrimination harder.
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On yesterday's show, The Nation's Ari Berman explains why the Republicans backing down on their latest extortion efforts is not a big victory for Democrats, why Republicans only cater to the far right extreme, the southern domination of the modern Republican Party, why modern conservative politics is all about fighting demographics, how Arizona and Kansas are expanding voter suppression tactics and why the Supreme Court made the burden of proving voter discrimination harder.
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- published: 18 Oct 2013
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FULL Democratic Debate: Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton Face Off In New Hampshire | MSNBC
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In the latest Democratic Debate in New Hampshire, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton got into a number of heated exchanges.
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FULL Democratic Debate: Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton Face Off In New Hampshire | MSNBC
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FULL Democratic Debate: Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton Face Off In New Hampshire | MSNBC
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S 1st Inaugural Address - FULL AudioBook | GreatestAudioBooks.com
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S 1st Inaugural Address - FULL AudioBook | GreatestAudioBooks.com - On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United St...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S 1st Inaugural Address - FULL AudioBook | GreatestAudioBooks.com - On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge of the Southern Democrats, and John Bell of the new Constitutional Union Party. He was the first president from the Republican Party. His victory was entirely due to the strength of his support in the North and West; no ballots were cast for him in 10 of the 15 Southern slave states, and he won only two of 996 counties in all the Southern states.
Lincoln received 1,866,452 votes, Douglas 1,376,957 votes, Breckinridge 849,781 votes, and Bell 588,789 votes. Turnout was 82.2 percent, with Lincoln winning the free Northern states, as well as California and Oregon. Douglas won Missouri, and split New Jersey with Lincoln. Bell won Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky, and Breckinridge won the rest of the South.
Although Lincoln won only a plurality of the popular vote, his victory in the electoral college was decisive: Lincoln had 180 and his opponents added together had only 123. There were fusion tickets in which all of Lincoln's opponents combined to support the same slate of Electors in New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, but even if the anti-Lincoln vote had been combined in every state, Lincoln still would have won a majority in the Electoral College.
The first photographic image of the new president
As Lincoln's election became evident, secessionists made clear their intent to leave the Union before he took office the next March. On December 20, 1860, South Carolina took the lead by adopting an ordinance of secession; by February 1, 1861, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas followed. Six of these states then adopted a constitution and declared themselves to be a sovereign nation, the Confederate States of America. The upper South and border states (Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, and Arkansas) listened to, but initially rejected, the secessionist appeal. President Buchanan and President-elect Lincoln refused to recognize the Confederacy, declaring secession illegal. The Confederacy selected Jefferson Davis as its provisional President on February 9, 1861.
There were attempts at compromise. The Crittenden Compromise would have extended the Missouri Compromise line of 1820, dividing the territories into slave and free, contrary to the Republican Party's free-soil platform. Lincoln rejected the idea, saying, "I will suffer death before I consent ... to any concession or compromise which looks like buying the privilege to take possession of this government to which we have a constitutional right."
En route to his inauguration by train, Lincoln addressed crowds and legislatures across the North. The president-elect then evaded possible assassins in Baltimore, who were uncovered by Lincoln's head of security, Allan Pinkerton. On February 23, 1861, he arrived in disguise in Washington, D.C., which was placed under substantial military guard. Lincoln directed his inaugural address to the South, proclaiming once again that he had no intention, or inclination, to abolish slavery in the Southern states: "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." - First inaugural address, 4 March 1861
The President ended his address with an appeal to the people of the South: "We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies ... The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." (Summary adapted from Wikipedia. org - Attribution: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham_Lincoln&action;=history)
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S 1st Inaugural Address - FULL AudioBook | GreatestAudioBooks.com - On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge of the Southern Democrats, and John Bell of the new Constitutional Union Party. He was the first president from the Republican Party. His victory was entirely due to the strength of his support in the North and West; no ballots were cast for him in 10 of the 15 Southern slave states, and he won only two of 996 counties in all the Southern states.
Lincoln received 1,866,452 votes, Douglas 1,376,957 votes, Breckinridge 849,781 votes, and Bell 588,789 votes. Turnout was 82.2 percent, with Lincoln winning the free Northern states, as well as California and Oregon. Douglas won Missouri, and split New Jersey with Lincoln. Bell won Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky, and Breckinridge won the rest of the South.
Although Lincoln won only a plurality of the popular vote, his victory in the electoral college was decisive: Lincoln had 180 and his opponents added together had only 123. There were fusion tickets in which all of Lincoln's opponents combined to support the same slate of Electors in New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, but even if the anti-Lincoln vote had been combined in every state, Lincoln still would have won a majority in the Electoral College.
The first photographic image of the new president
As Lincoln's election became evident, secessionists made clear their intent to leave the Union before he took office the next March. On December 20, 1860, South Carolina took the lead by adopting an ordinance of secession; by February 1, 1861, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas followed. Six of these states then adopted a constitution and declared themselves to be a sovereign nation, the Confederate States of America. The upper South and border states (Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, and Arkansas) listened to, but initially rejected, the secessionist appeal. President Buchanan and President-elect Lincoln refused to recognize the Confederacy, declaring secession illegal. The Confederacy selected Jefferson Davis as its provisional President on February 9, 1861.
There were attempts at compromise. The Crittenden Compromise would have extended the Missouri Compromise line of 1820, dividing the territories into slave and free, contrary to the Republican Party's free-soil platform. Lincoln rejected the idea, saying, "I will suffer death before I consent ... to any concession or compromise which looks like buying the privilege to take possession of this government to which we have a constitutional right."
En route to his inauguration by train, Lincoln addressed crowds and legislatures across the North. The president-elect then evaded possible assassins in Baltimore, who were uncovered by Lincoln's head of security, Allan Pinkerton. On February 23, 1861, he arrived in disguise in Washington, D.C., which was placed under substantial military guard. Lincoln directed his inaugural address to the South, proclaiming once again that he had no intention, or inclination, to abolish slavery in the Southern states: "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." - First inaugural address, 4 March 1861
The President ended his address with an appeal to the people of the South: "We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies ... The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." (Summary adapted from Wikipedia. org - Attribution: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham_Lincoln&action;=history)
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The Democratic Promise of Public Work: Economy, Education, Citizenship (1997)
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The New Deal was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1936, and a few that came later. They included both laws passed by ...
The New Deal was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1936, and a few that came later. They included both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term (1933–37) of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The programs were in response to the Great Depression, and focused on what historians call the "3 Rs": Relief, Recovery, and Reform. That is Relief for the unemployed and poor; Recovery of the economy to normal levels; and Reform of the financial system to prevent a repeat depression.[1]
The New Deal produced a political realignment, making the Democratic Party the majority (as well as the party that held the White House for seven out of nine Presidential terms from 1933 to 1969), with its base in liberal ideas, the white South, traditional Democrats, big city machines, and the newly empowered labor unions and ethnic minorities. The Republicans were split, with conservatives opposing the entire New Deal as an enemy of business and growth, and liberals accepting some of it and promising to make it more efficient. The realignment crystallized into the New Deal Coalition that dominated most presidential elections into the 1960s, while the opposition Conservative Coalition largely controlled Congress from 1937 to 1963. By 1936 the term "liberal" typically was used for supporters of the New Deal, and "conservative" for its opponents. From 1934 to 1938, Roosevelt was assisted in his endeavours by a "pro-spender" majority in Congress (drawn from two-party, competitive, non-machine, Progressive, and Left party districts). As noted by Alexander Hicks, "Roosevelt, backed by rare, non-Southern Democrat majorities—270 non-Southern Democrat representatives and 71 non-Southern Democrat senators—spelled Second New Deal reform."[2]
Many historians distinguish between a "First New Deal" (1933–34) and a "Second New Deal" (1935–38), with the second one more liberal and more controversial. The "First New Deal" (1933–34) dealt with diverse groups, from banking and railroads to industry and farming, all of which demanded help for economic survival. The Federal Emergency Relief Administration, for instance, provided $500 million for relief operations by states and cities, while the short-lived CWA (Civil Works Administration) gave localities money to operate make-work projects in 1933-34.[3]
The "Second New Deal" in 1935–38 included the Wagner Act to promote labor unions, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) relief program (which made the federal government by far the largest single employer in the nation),[4] the Social Security Act, and new programs to aid tenant farmers and migrant workers. The final major items of New Deal legislation were the creation of the United States Housing Authority and Farm Security Administration, both in 1937, and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which set maximum hours and minimum wages for most categories of workers.[5]
The economic downturn of 1937–38, and the bitter split between the AFL and CIO labor unions led to major Republican gains in Congress in 1938. Conservative Republicans and Democrats in Congress joined in the informal Conservative Coalition. By 1942–43 they shut down relief programs such as the WPA and CCC and blocked major liberal proposals. Roosevelt himself turned his attention to the war effort, and won reelection in 1940 and 1944. The Supreme Court declared the National Recovery Administration (NRA) and the first version of the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) unconstitutional, however the AAA was rewritten and then upheld. As the first Republican president elected after FDR, Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953–61) left the New Deal largely intact, even expanding it in some areas.[6] In the 1960s, Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society used the New Deal as inspiration for a dramatic expansion of liberal programs, which Republican Richard M. Nixon generally retained. After 1974, however, the call for deregulation of the economy gained bipartisan support.[7] The New Deal regulation of banking (Glass–Steagall Act) was suspended in the 1990s. Many New Deal programs remain active, with some still operating under the original names, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC), the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). The largest programs still in existence today are the Social Security System and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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The New Deal was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1936, and a few that came later. They included both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term (1933–37) of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The programs were in response to the Great Depression, and focused on what historians call the "3 Rs": Relief, Recovery, and Reform. That is Relief for the unemployed and poor; Recovery of the economy to normal levels; and Reform of the financial system to prevent a repeat depression.[1]
The New Deal produced a political realignment, making the Democratic Party the majority (as well as the party that held the White House for seven out of nine Presidential terms from 1933 to 1969), with its base in liberal ideas, the white South, traditional Democrats, big city machines, and the newly empowered labor unions and ethnic minorities. The Republicans were split, with conservatives opposing the entire New Deal as an enemy of business and growth, and liberals accepting some of it and promising to make it more efficient. The realignment crystallized into the New Deal Coalition that dominated most presidential elections into the 1960s, while the opposition Conservative Coalition largely controlled Congress from 1937 to 1963. By 1936 the term "liberal" typically was used for supporters of the New Deal, and "conservative" for its opponents. From 1934 to 1938, Roosevelt was assisted in his endeavours by a "pro-spender" majority in Congress (drawn from two-party, competitive, non-machine, Progressive, and Left party districts). As noted by Alexander Hicks, "Roosevelt, backed by rare, non-Southern Democrat majorities—270 non-Southern Democrat representatives and 71 non-Southern Democrat senators—spelled Second New Deal reform."[2]
Many historians distinguish between a "First New Deal" (1933–34) and a "Second New Deal" (1935–38), with the second one more liberal and more controversial. The "First New Deal" (1933–34) dealt with diverse groups, from banking and railroads to industry and farming, all of which demanded help for economic survival. The Federal Emergency Relief Administration, for instance, provided $500 million for relief operations by states and cities, while the short-lived CWA (Civil Works Administration) gave localities money to operate make-work projects in 1933-34.[3]
The "Second New Deal" in 1935–38 included the Wagner Act to promote labor unions, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) relief program (which made the federal government by far the largest single employer in the nation),[4] the Social Security Act, and new programs to aid tenant farmers and migrant workers. The final major items of New Deal legislation were the creation of the United States Housing Authority and Farm Security Administration, both in 1937, and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which set maximum hours and minimum wages for most categories of workers.[5]
The economic downturn of 1937–38, and the bitter split between the AFL and CIO labor unions led to major Republican gains in Congress in 1938. Conservative Republicans and Democrats in Congress joined in the informal Conservative Coalition. By 1942–43 they shut down relief programs such as the WPA and CCC and blocked major liberal proposals. Roosevelt himself turned his attention to the war effort, and won reelection in 1940 and 1944. The Supreme Court declared the National Recovery Administration (NRA) and the first version of the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) unconstitutional, however the AAA was rewritten and then upheld. As the first Republican president elected after FDR, Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953–61) left the New Deal largely intact, even expanding it in some areas.[6] In the 1960s, Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society used the New Deal as inspiration for a dramatic expansion of liberal programs, which Republican Richard M. Nixon generally retained. After 1974, however, the call for deregulation of the economy gained bipartisan support.[7] The New Deal regulation of banking (Glass–Steagall Act) was suspended in the 1990s. Many New Deal programs remain active, with some still operating under the original names, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC), the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). The largest programs still in existence today are the Social Security System and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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Stonewall Democratic Club of Southern Nevada presents a candidate forum for Congressional District 3 candidates.
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Could Southern Democrats Rise Again? - Newsy
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How the South Went Republican: Can Democrats Ever Win There Again? (1992)
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Southern Democrats Extinct?
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Prayer In Public Schools Pushed By Southern Democrats
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1965: Civil Rights at 50 - Southern Democrats
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Democrats Flew The Confederate Battle Flag, Not Republicans | ZoNation
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Dem Rep. Compares GOP's Current 'Intransigence' to Southern Democrats on Civil Rights
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What's the Matter with the Democratic Party? Why Democrats Face Defeat (1991)
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Republicans, Democrats Face off in Crucial Southern State
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President Nixon loses support of three Southern Democrats
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Christopher Hitchens: Southern Strategy, Savings & Loan Scandal, Cuba Hotels & Tourism (2000)
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The Democratic Promise of Public Work: Economy, Education, Citizenship (1997)
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... and Democratic candidates.What’s more, it means a silent military coup IS already underway in the ranks of the most prominent political parties, a coup of irony, that is ... At a 39 percent approval rating, Johnson performed much better than his two Republican and Democratic rivals, both of whom trailed far behind with 31 and 14 percent, respectively....
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If Donald Trump will become the next President of United States, then his third wife and former model Melania Trump is going to be the next First Lady. Like her husband, Melania’s career has come a long way, and very few people know that there was a time when she posed just in her heels for a photo shoot ... In the released pictures, the potential First Lady is seen wearing nothing but high heels and smirking for the camera ... ....
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A world-leading air crash investigator has said he believes flight MH370 was deliberately flown into the sea ... The Boeing 777 disappeared while flying to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur with 239 people on board in March 2014 ... MH370. What we know ... Despite the extensive search of the southern Indian Ocean, no trace of the aircraft was found until the discovery of a wing section called a flaperon on Reunion Island off Madagascar one year ago ... 1 ... 2 ... ....
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Hong Kong (CNN)Hundreds of trains and flights have been canceled in cities across southern China as Typhoon Nida barrels toward land after battering the Philippines over the weekend ... Kindergartens and special needs classes have been closed. Read More ... In the nearby southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, more than 600 high-speed trains have been canceled due to the approaching storm, state-run Xinhua news reported ... Flights affected ... ....
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Odyssey Science Camp Instructor Bids Farewell after 30 Summers Spent at SIUE (Southern Illinois University System)
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Southern Illinois University System). Loraine Brown has positively impacted countless lives with her bright personality and exuberant love for science during her 30 years as an instructor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville's Odyssey Science Camp ... Brown was featured by the Belleville News-Democrat in an article posted Saturday, July 30....
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The Illawarra Hawks are pleased to announce that Multi Civil and Rail (MCR) in conjunction with its new sister company, Southern Cross Civil & Rail Training will become the clubs joint major partners for the 2016/17 season. Multi Civil and Rail, who are activating the second year of their major partnership agreement and Southern Cross Civil & Rail Training will take centre place on the new look Hawks 16/17 playing strip....
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Southern Downs Regional Council). WA's City of Wanneroo Mayor Tracey Roberts has encouraged Southern Downs Mayor Tracy Dobie to join her in becoming the second Mayor in Australia to ride superbike pillion at this year's 2016 Yamaha Motor Finance Australian Superbike Championship in Warwick ... The superbike round is another coup for the Southern Downs region, which has a strong and....
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Billionaires for Hillary
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“Billionaires for Hillary” isn’t a group the Clinton campaign will be trotting out anytime soon to win over diehard Bernie Sanders supporters, but in recent days, quite a few mega-rich business moguls have been publicly appearing with the Democratic nominee to sing her praises ... The three endorsements also give “permission” to moderate Republicans and independents to back a liberal Democrat they might otherwise shun, said Rosen....
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Montana Democratic Party) ... 'New Jersey multimillionaire Greg Gianforte has spent over a million dollars of his own fortune on his campaign, in an attempt to push his dangerous agenda onto Montanans,'said Jason Pitt, a spokesperson for the Montana Democratic Party....
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(Source. Southern Illinois University System) ... As her sustainability fellowship at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville comes to a close, Connie Frey Spurlock recalls some of the successes, individual gains and projects she helped facilitate over the past three years ... 'We need a paradigm shift ... Southern Illinois University System published this content on 01 August 2016 and is solely responsible for the information contained herein....
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Read More ... As soon as Motz's opinion was released, GOP Gov ... State Senate Leader Phil Berger and state House Speaker Tim Moore, both Republicans, said the opinion had been issued "by three partisan Democrats" and said that it "ignores legal precedent." ... Holder ... Allison Riggs, a senior attorney at the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, says the North Carolina ruling and some of the other ones undermine Shelby ... ....
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Donald Trump touts the success of his Republican National Convention, but some voters don't see it that way ... Bush campaigned against Democrat Michael Dukakis ... In 1996, it was Democrat Bill Clinton against Republican Bob Dole ... Bush got a 3 percent bump, and Democrat John Kerry got a 14 percent bump. ... ....
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