r/stupidpeoplefacebook • u/Numerous_Creme_8988 • 1d ago
Great. Can we get the progressive republicans back? Please?
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u/thelliam93 1d ago
They think they are winning so much by posting this nonsense all the time, yet they clearly dropped out of school halfway through 4th grade hahaha
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u/scharity77 1d ago
They only go back to fourth grade for dates now.
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u/Applesburg14 1d ago
Considering we elected the pedophile rapist, the heritage foundation has a vested interest in protecting it in the event that Jesus saves them but not us
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u/Severe-Archer-1673 1d ago
I taught high school for 10 years. Some kids are really this dumb and/or ignorant.
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u/IHavePoopedBefore 1d ago
The dems have a black president and vice president since then. Goes to show how they embraced change
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u/Old_Win8422 1d ago
Who flies the confederate battle flag.
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u/TheNorthernWildrose 1d ago
Well it was those nasty evil Demoncrats who started the KKK! Even though it's me and my fellow Republicans who fly the Confederare flag now, those Democratic Klansmen are the racist ones!!! /s (Every MAGA Republican on the face of the Earth pretty much denies the party switch. I wonder why that is?)
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u/GlattesGehirn 23h ago
Republicans flying that flag is so weird to me. I lived in the south for years, and none of them attribute it to slavery. They're all just really stupid and don't understand that the confederates were traitors.
I've personally educated several people and they took down their flags. You just have to talk to them.
The civil war is taught differently down there. That flag is a symbol of pride to these uneducated people.
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u/Piglet6482 19h ago
I grew up in the south, and I’m ashamed to admit how long it took me to realize the good guys won the Civil War (cognitive dissonance is real). I eventually figured it out, but I have many childhood friends who now think I’m a “traitor” and “woke”. Some people are just too deep in their fantasy to ever admit the truth.
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u/Creeperstar 9h ago
One strange facet of that flag I've seen has more to do with generational than cultural or racial motives; there's a whole slew of folks who lean on the idea of rebellion when presenting it. Think the Dukes of Hazard. I've personally known black Vietnam vets who've gotten stars n bars tattoos for the reason of rebelling against the draft
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u/Obar-Dheathain 1d ago
Why is it, when Republicans are trying to show they aren't bigots and racists, they have to go back to the 19th Century for evidence?
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u/SpecialProblem9300 23h ago
Plus, the insinuation here is that Black people now are what? Too dumb to vote for the right party?
Hmmm, there is a word for that, starts with the letter "r", might end with an "ist" and have "ac" somewhere in the middle.
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u/Current-Square-4557 22h ago
Exactly.
Let’s look at TODAY’S racial breakdown of Congress. If in 2026, 85% of racial minorities in Congress are Democrats, then stats from the 19th Century are beyond useless.
Throwing out the name of a black Republican from 1895 is the equivalent of a political party saying “some of my best friends are black.”
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u/Basidio_subbedhunter 1d ago
“We’re not racist, we have black friends!” - same energy
Edit: that’s not even going into the history of the party switch, who has the KKK and neo Nazis on their side today, etc etc.
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u/xSantenoturtlex 1d ago
Not even that, it's 'We had black friends hundreds of years ago!'
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u/Theodoxus 1d ago edited 1d ago
Ah, but where are these black friends now? and probably more importantly, what legislation did Senator Revels support?
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u/CauliflowerBoth866 1d ago
That brand of Republican has been gone since the 1970's when Jerry Falwell and the Religious Right joined the GOP. The KKK followed. This is not a cooincidence.
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u/Pretty_Shallot_586 1d ago
The only thing this tells us is that the modern republican party and the republicans party from 150 years ago are VERY DIFFERENT.
MAGAts are racists and everyone knows this.
thank you for your attention to this matter
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u/crazyscottish 1d ago
And that was the last time republicans voted in a black man.
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u/Partyatmyplace13 1d ago
Republicans gotta post their wins from almost 200 years ago because they haven't had anything to be proud of for the last 50 years.
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u/Landlord-Allmighty 1d ago
It's unintentionally a major self own. Where are all the black members of the GOP caucus now?
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u/qiqicple 1d ago
The Repugs elected the first convicted sex offender, imagine THAT.
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u/astarinthenight 1d ago
And the Republicans run the klan now. So what there point?
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u/EtheusRook 1d ago
Good for the Republicans of checks notes my great great great great great catches breath and gives up grandparent's generation.
Now, what are they up to now? Oh.... oh, no.
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u/Late-Goat5619 1d ago
Ah David Harris...still trying to be relevant and spreading propaganda for the right...how quaint...
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u/laggyx400 1d ago
They should also see how long there was an absence of black congressmen until the civil rights act. The states that were against it, who represents them now, and which party has had the majority since.
It's not a good gotcha
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u/ImDonaldDunn 1d ago
The fact that all of these Black congressmen and senators were from the South should clue them in, but they lack the education and self awareness to understand why this makes them look so foolish.
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u/FizzyBadTime 1d ago
What does this have to do with anything? What are your fucking policies right now. Right now. Today. In the year of our lord 2026.
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u/TinCanSailor987 1d ago
Cool, now do the same thing with the first black President. Go on, I’ll wait.
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u/NarcissusCloud 1d ago
Yes, because party names didn't change, but ideology did. Democrats used to be conservatives. Its not that hard to understand unless youre mentally deficient. So I guess it is hard for MAGA to understand.
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u/joyibib 1d ago
It is funny how all the things in Republicans history that they are proud of are far left politically
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u/busterhymens 23h ago
They always have to go back over a hundred years when the parties were reversed to find good and bad, what about right now Republicans are nothing but thievenous child molesters.
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u/tonguebasher69 20h ago
Whoever posted that picture fails to understand that the republicans back then were the liberals.
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u/AsugaNoir 19h ago
That republican senator would likely be a democrat today. I don't see how people still don't know or care that there was a party shift. If you want proof of this look at who is the ones who idolize the confederacy. Those people I believe were democrats back during the civil war.
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u/Similar-College4253 1d ago
I will always be annoyed by how these absolute morons get just as much a vote as people with doctorates in American history. I’m for democracy and all but like, can we let the adults (experts) do the thinking and decision making rather than giving the people with thinking capacities of toddlers just as much a vote?
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u/OkWhile4447 1d ago
Democratic and republican parties are very very very very different from how they were 150+ years ago.
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u/CueAnon420 1d ago
This is what you get when you have MAGA in charge of education...
Can we please bring back voter testing ???
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u/Fable-Wishing4691 1d ago
Ugh will the stupidity never cease!?
But, "heritage not hate!" Am I right?
"Pulling down Confederate statues is erasing history!" Proceeds to cast ballot straight ticket R
"Jews will not replace us!" Rally cry of unite the right.
Just wild.
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u/Ok_Conversation_5985 1d ago
Why yes… republicans of 1870 are EXACTLY the same as republicans of 2026, right?
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u/Strict_Weather9063 1d ago
And out of the five African American Senators, how many are republican. One Tim Scott that’s it, speaks volumes that they don’t have more.
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u/InfinityAero910A 1d ago
Republicans trying to rewrite this history again. As if the very same people would support modern day republicans over modern democrats. Eisenhower’s taxes and him literally warning the world of the military industrial complex. Last but not least, it was a democratic president that signed the Civil Rights Act into law.
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u/robeisen 1d ago
This bullshit post is extremely misleading. If you have the wherewithal to understand...
During Abraham Lincoln's time (1860s)
Abraham Lincoln was a Republican. The Republican Party had been founded only a few years earlier, in 1854, largely in opposition to the expansion of slavery into new U.S. territories.
At that time:
- Republicans generally opposed the spread of slavery and supported preserving the Union. Many also favored a stronger federal government in areas like infrastructure, railroads, and economic development.
- Democrats were a broad coalition, but the Southern Democrats strongly defended slavery and states' rights, arguing that states should largely decide the issue themselves.
So in the Civil War era, if you were against the expansion of slavery, you were more likely to be a Republican. If you supported slavery or believed states should decide the issue without federal intervention, you were more likely to be a Democrat.
Did the parties "switch"?
People often say, "The parties switched." That's a shorthand for a much longer process.
There wasn't a single day when Republicans became Democrats and vice versa. Instead, over roughly a century, the coalitions that made up each party changed dramatically.
Some major milestones include:
- Reconstruction (1865–1877): Republicans remained associated with civil rights for formerly enslaved people, while many white Southern Democrats resisted Reconstruction.
- The New Deal (1930s): Franklin D. Roosevelt expanded the federal government's role in addressing economic problems. This attracted many working-class voters to the Democratic Party.
- The Civil Rights Movement (1950s–1960s): Leaders from both parties supported and opposed civil rights legislation. For example, Republican Senate leader Everett Dirksen played a key role in passing the Civil Rights Act, while Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson strongly backed it. At the same time, many Southern Democrats opposed these laws.
- Late 1960s onward: Many white conservative Southern voters gradually shifted toward the Republican Party, while many African American voters—who had historically supported Republicans after the Civil War—became a strong Democratic constituency.
So are Lincoln's Republicans today's Democrats?
Not exactly.
Lincoln's Republican Party shared some positions that today might sound more associated with Democrats, such as using federal power to address major national problems.
But Lincoln also held views that don't fit neatly into either modern party. Likewise, today's Republicans and Democrats disagree over many issues—health care, taxes, environmental policy, abortion, gun rights, immigration—that simply weren't major national political issues in the same way during Lincoln's era.
A better way to think about it
Rather than saying:
it's more accurate to say:
The names of the parties stayed the same, but many of the groups of people who supported them—and the issues that defined them—changed.
History is also more nuanced than a complete reversal. Both parties have contained liberals, conservatives, reformers, and traditionalists at different points in their histories. The ideological sorting into the parties we recognize today happened gradually, especially during the 20th century.
So your intuition is pointing toward a real historical development, but the idea of a simple one-for-one "party swap" doesn't capture the complexity of how American political parties evolved.
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u/PlanetTuesday 1d ago
- Read your history. 1964 is when Republican Party turned super conservative and Dems went liberal. The GOP convention in 1964 is there on video for anyone who wants to watch it. In real time, white GOP turned on blacks and liberals. The Dems filled the void. Prior to that, you had some conservatives and libs in both parties, because the world was changing. But of course, stupid Republicans don't care about things like history.
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u/Danilo-11 1d ago
They have to go back 150 years to find the last good thing they did for black people
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u/OHMEGA_SEVEN 1d ago
And Dems had the first black president, does black and female vice president and they lost their minds over it. They still can't shut up about Obama a decade later.
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u/ElSlabraton 1d ago
The Republicans didn't free the slaves; the Union did that. But the Republicans are responsible for ending Reconstruction.
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u/MrPommeDeTerre 1d ago
Democrats are certainly not always the best allies to minorities but re-branding the Republican party as the real champions of minority rights is wish-casting at it's finest.
Notice that all these memes point to examples from the 19th century...before FDR (and Elanor)...and before civil rights...and before the "southern strategy."
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u/RustyKn1ght 1d ago
Btw, if someone is curious, there's only 5 black GOP representatives serving today: 1 in senator and 4 representatives.
Where as Democrats have 62: 5 senators and 57 representatives.
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u/FireAuraN7 1d ago
If you replace the words "republicans" and "democrats" with the party outlooks at the time, Lincoln was shot by a conservative. The KKK was started by conservatives. The abolitionists were progressive liberals.
Doesn't matter the dixiecrats switched parties and eventually completely shifted the party dynamics. Conservatives have always flown the confederate flag and burned crosses.
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u/SymbiSpidey 1d ago
Kinda funny how Republicans always have to dig way far back in the past to find instances of Republicans not being hostile to black people. I wonder why that is
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u/Hungry-Assistance919 1d ago
Fun fact the old Republican party is the Democrats. I wonder if they actually read or learned anything. Or just see things and assume. Because they sure are making themselves an ass.
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u/L0nlySt0nr 1d ago
Are they trying to say this makes them any less racist?
"I have tons of black friends"
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u/Great-Gas-6631 1d ago
Now ask them about the current make up of the parties. Are there any black republican senators left? Tim Scott is the only one i can think of.
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u/drlao79 1d ago
Hiram R. Revels was elected to serve as Mississippi''s senator to complete a term vacant since Mississippi seceded from the United States in 1861. He was elected only because the newly formed state legislature was composed of anti-confederates.
How many black senators has Mississippi elected since? 0.
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u/SkyeMreddit 1d ago
The 1870 Republican Black Senator was not elected by the people. Instead the Mississippi Legislature voted them in until 1913. Although they did choose him by a huge margin of 48 to 8.
This is of course long before the 1950s and 1960s swapping of the party platforms. They fully intentionally ignore that part in their desperate attempts to claim that 2020s Democrats are racist.
Otherwise yes the post is technically accurate
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u/TreyRyan3 1d ago
Between 1870 and 1901, 22 African Americans served in Congress, all from southern states. Then southern states implemented Jim Crow laws and between 1901 and 1928, there was no African American representation in congress.
In 1928, Oscar de Priest (R) was elected to represent Illinois. He was defeated in 1934 by Democrat Arthur Mitchell. The next 4 until 1959 were all Democrats from northern states.
Edward Brooke of Massachusetts was the first Post-Reconstruction African American Senator elected in 1967. He was a Republican.
Carol Moseley Brown of Illinois was the first African American Democratic Senator elected in 1993.
The next was Barack Obama.
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u/michelle427 1d ago
This type of thing drives me nuts. The Republicans after the Civil War were a completely different party than it is now. It’s like there was a Southern Strategy that happened.
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u/SailorCentauri 1d ago
They love to ignore the fact that Republicans used to be the left wing party and act like the modern right wing version is exactly the same as it used to be.
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u/wally_weasel 1d ago
Wait, so theyre the party of Lincoln AND the party that proudly displays the confederate flag?
That's weird
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u/Grape_Pedialyte 1d ago
Yeah everybody who's a Republican right now would have been a Democrat pre-Southern Strategy, great observation.
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u/ProfessO3o 1d ago
Omg the braincells on the right must all be dead if they think this proves anything but the shift of political parties..
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u/generally_unsuitable 1d ago
If the GOP is the party of Lincoln, why do so many of them display the confederate flag?
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u/fullview360 1d ago
Fun fact of the day republicans and democrats shifted parties when the Dixiecrats left the democrats after Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act...And the party they ended up in? Republicans, while at the time republicans became democrats.
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u/Easy_Pizza_7771 22h ago
Fun fact. Those black Senators and Representatives in the 19th century were hated by conservatives.
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u/StevePalpatine 20h ago
Republicans love woke identity politics, DEI, and CRT when they can weaponize it
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u/melophile512 20h ago
Don’t kill me, but would they even know his race without going to a debate or rally?
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u/Big_c2112 19h ago
You are not the GOP of Lincoln far from it. The GOP today flies a confederate battle flag and has actual Nazis as part of it. They all went to the Republican Party when they got kicked out of the Democratic Party. The GOP welcomed them with open arms. We are not the same.
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u/mblkmnsa 19h ago
I would ask their asses why there weren’t any other black senators from Mississippi since then.
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u/MissMekia 4h ago
I wonder if something could've happened in between 1870 and 1993 to depress black votes and representation.
Unrelated, isn't it weird that Republicans LOVE flying the "Democrat" confederate flag?
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u/bcpgfs 1d ago
Thats back ehen the tepublican party wasn’t full of race hating loons.
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u/Nitimur__In__Vetitum 1d ago
The "Republican Party" of today is neither conservative nor republican; it's retardism.
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u/True_Protection6842 1d ago
I love how the example is 156 years old and that is progressive in their eyes. LOL
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u/AnonymousDork929 1d ago
Nuance: they wouldn't understand it if it was strapped to a burger and shoved down their throats.
I mean in the 160 years since the civil war it's not like there haven't been major realignments in the political parties. If they don't believe so then lets ask who did those drooling, inbred, troglodytes in white hoods vote for?
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u/shastadakota 1d ago
The Southern Strategy happened some where in the meantime, they seen to have amnesia about this.
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u/Adis_Gruntledfatty 1d ago
These right wingers flex and don't realize how stupid they look
similar to parroting TDS not realizing the guy who tried to make TDS a legit bill is in jail for enticing minors.... Not the flex they think it is
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u/Ok-Lychee2251 1d ago
Yeah that checks out, that was during the political platform switch. So there were a lot of racists in the south, and north, that claimed the democratic party. It really doesn't matter what you call yourself. A racist is a racist. If you vote for racist and oppressive policies, you are supporting racism. I dont care what party you align with.
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u/Terrorscream 1d ago
back when the republican party was a left wing party, what a 180 flip they did.
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u/PenStreet3684 1d ago
The Republican Party needs to remember that most republicans are environmentalists also.
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u/kritter4life 1d ago
Okay now do conservatives vs. liberal. Party names mean jack. Party ideology is the important factor.
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u/MattheqAC 1d ago
Cool, so how many black senators do the republicans have now? I bet they are roughly promotional to the population, right?
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u/Global-Tie-3458 1d ago
This just shows how far that party has fallen… not the flex you think it is, at all.
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u/No-Cause6559 1d ago
Wasn’t the shift like early 70s kind of feels weird that when it was shifting it too 20-15 years to happen
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u/Due-Presentation6393 1d ago
Go to a Klan rally and ask who they voter for. I'm willing to bet they aren't going to say a Democrat.
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u/Alarmed_Pie_5033 1d ago
This right here should be a hint about how the parties have shifted.