Backhanded History
Conservative pundits, especially Glenn Beck, have been working relentlessly to rewrite history to make their followers believe that all liberals are racist. This is a Rovarian tactic used to attack President Obama’s strengths – civil rights. The truth is neither side has a rosy past:
- The KKK was started by angry racist white guys in the south. The original KKK did not align with any party. Over time it became very conservative.
- Racism has a history on both sides depending on the region.
- White Liberals and Conservatives are both guilty of slave ownership. But is was predominantly the northern Liberals that fought to bring it to an end.
- Hitler was conservative. The only thing liberal about his movement is the name “Socialist”. He gained the German’s trust by pretending to be liberal in the beginning but Fascism reared its ugly head very quickly. And Fascism is quite conservative. Look it up.
- Stalin and Lenin on the other hand aligned more with liberals.
- Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement were both very liberal. It is ludicrous to state otherwise.
When you hear historians refer to southern Democrats or Dixicrats between 1877 and 1965 they are talking about the white south. It can be very confusing. But think about it, would the whites in the Civil War south really associate with the Republican party? The Republican party of Lincoln? The Republican party that went to war against the south? The Republican party that the south hated so much they secede from the nation? The answer is no. The white south aligned with the southern Democratic party making it a stronghold for almost 100 years.
If you don’t trust me maybe you will accept a conservative source. The following is from conservapedia.com/Republican_Party. From a section called Realignment: The South becomes Republican:
“When reconstruction ended in 1877, the white South identified as Democrats. They saw their party as the defender of the southern way of life, which included a respect for states’ rights and an appreciation for traditional southern values. They repeatedly warned against the aggressive designs of Northern liberals and Republicans, as well as the civil rights activists they denounced as “outside agitators.” Thus there was a serious barrier to becoming a Republican.“
“After passage of the Civil Rights Act most Southerners accepted the integration of most institutions (except public schools). With the old barrier to becoming a Republican removed, traditional Southerners joined the new middle class and the Northern transplants in moving toward the Republican party. Integration thus liberated Southern politics, just as Martin Luther King had promised. Meanwhile the newly enfranchised black voters supported Democratic candidates at the 85-90% level.”
The following is from conservapedia.com/KKK:
“The first KKK was an unorganized movement of white Southerners who opposed Reconstruction in the late 1860s by inflicting violence against black leaders and white Republicans. Local Klans were entirely separate; there was no organization or coordination above the county level, and no county or state officers.”
The following is from conservapedia.com/Martin_Luther_King
“Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Ph.D. (1929-1968) was by far the most important black leader of the 1960s. Since his assassination in 1968, he has been the single most important exemplar of civil rights and of liberalism generally in recent world history.”