Reply to "Black support for Bush drops to two percent"

Oh' the Southern Strategy was innocuous. I see the light now!! A platform incorporating states' rights was a staple of the Dixiecrats, but now the wonderfully race neutral Republicans have adopted it. I gotcha'. When Reagan kicked off his presidential campaign in Philidelphia, MS and liberally referred to states' rights, he wasn't giving a wink and a nudge to the good people of ol' Mississippi and their resistance to civil rights.

I suppose that's why 99% of the Dixiecrats are now card-carrying conservative republicans.

'Groids are bottomless pits of stupidity. If Larry Elder would just come out of the closet he wouldn't debase himself by being such a whore for the rabid rightwing. He's one of those queens (not always so mean, but always a whore) the GOP uses regularly.

::Dixiecrats - from Wikipedia::

Initially, it referred to a 1948 splinter from the party: for over a century, white Southerners had overwhelmingly been Democrats, but that year many bolted the party and supported Strom Thurmond's third-party candidacy for president of the United States. Over the next several decades, as the white South slowly re-aligned from the Democrats to the Republicans, ...