Timeline for Is it true that Jim Crow laws were primarily promoted by the Democratic Party?
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| Jan 24, 2022 at 12:43 | comment | added | Stuart F | Likewise, the Republicans were originally the party of east-coast elites with significant support from factory workers, in opposition to the rural states. | |
| Jul 8, 2020 at 19:30 | history | edited | agc | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added link to prior similarly themed answer.
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| Jul 7, 2020 at 22:12 | comment | added | computercarguy | @HotLicks, sure it doesn't include everything, but it's a massive change that laid the foundation for the later changes as the parties split further. | |
| Jul 7, 2020 at 22:10 | comment | added | Hot Licks | @computercarguy - What you're missing is that there were a half dozen different policies involved -- government size, social programs, segregation, "states rights", etc -- and they "swapped" at different times. Segregation was one of the last, in large part because there remained a strong Democratic "base" in the South until Lyndon Johnson. | |
| Jul 7, 2020 at 22:04 | comment | added | computercarguy | @HotLicks, actually, the swap between parties happened slowly between 1860 and 1930, which this answer completely ignores and is pretty biased against Democrats. livescience.com/… | |
| Jul 7, 2020 at 15:39 | comment | added | ReinstateMonica3167040 | @HAEM We are probably in the fifth or sixth party system. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_Party_System and xkcd.com/1127/large mentioned above. | |
| Jul 7, 2020 at 1:16 | comment | added | Hot Licks | @zibadawatimmy - By the mid 60 the ships has pretty much reversed course. | |
| Jul 7, 2020 at 1:14 | comment | added | zibadawa timmy | @HotLicks Never said it didn't. I said it was a major turning point, not the be-all-end-all of the matter. | |
| Jul 6, 2020 at 23:42 | comment | added | Kevin | @zibadawatimmy Thank God you didn't mean that one or I was going to feel really old | |
| Jul 6, 2020 at 22:18 | comment | added | zibadawa timmy | @Nij I'm pretty sure I don't, but that pretty much conveys the same message so it's an awesome proxy. | |
| Jul 6, 2020 at 21:58 | comment | added | Hot Licks | @zibadawatimmy - The "swap" between the two parties had begun well before LBJ. My readings have indicated that the change began in the 20s and was not completed until the 70s or 80s. Note that Democrat president Harry Truman desegregated the armed forces in 1948. | |
| Jul 6, 2020 at 21:47 | comment | added | Nij | I think what you meant is this xkcd chart @zibadawatimmy | |
| Jul 6, 2020 at 17:56 | comment | added | zibadawa timmy | @HAEM Early American politics, and political identities, were very volatile, yes. I remember long ago in my HS civics course (or was it textbook?) there was an image describing parties and alignments, and at one point in the fairly early history there was just a "dust cloud", like you'd expect to see in a cartoon when two characters start fighting wildly; because things just got that crazy around then, at least in the opinion of this graphic maker. | |
| Jul 6, 2020 at 10:13 | comment | added | HAEM | @BlueRaja-DannyPflughoeft True, I believe Lincoln referred to the Whigs and Democrats switching sides. | |
| Jul 5, 2020 at 17:52 | comment | added | zibadawa timmy | A major turning point was when President Lyndon B. Johnson (D, Texas) aggressively advocated for and signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (and later the Voting Rights Act of 1965). Johnson himself allegedly predicted this would cause them to lose the South, which ultimately they did quite demonstrably with Reagan and the Southern Strategy. But he did it anyway, as he was convinced it was the right, Christian thing to do (not that Johnson was a saint even on the matters of race, and had even used Congressional stall tactics to block civil rights legislation as a Senator before). | |
| Jul 5, 2020 at 17:23 | vote | accept | Jaood | ||
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| Jul 5, 2020 at 17:20 | history | edited | agc | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Clarified language.
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| Jul 5, 2020 at 17:13 | history | answered | agc | CC BY-SA 4.0 |