"I have made the point that the Democratic Party is responsible mostly for the economic inequalities and what you come up with is, that."
No. You've asserted that opinion. I can't argue that the Yellow Dog Democrats were a racist force in the formerly slave owning states. But I have lived in the North and West where racism is also a force.
At the risk of repeating a story, my parents were from western Iowa and my father was career Army. Every, repeat every visit to the homeplace was full of 'Oh my, how do you stand living among those ignorant racists in the South?'
And then, the lily-white little town where my grandfathers' pastorate was located had a black family buy the farm on the town's boundary, allowing, no- requiring that their kids attend the town's school. The local government redrew the town's borders so the family became a county board of education issue. I got a million of'em, if you want....
A question- if the Democratic Party is responsible for all the racism in this country, why haven't the Republicans fixed an issue of almost two hundred years standing?
Y'all all about Republican President Lincoln's freeing of the slaves (an economic blow against the slave states then in rebellion and not, repeat NOT a civil/human rights action) but you ignore the numerous statements expressing then broadly current racism, such as:
From Lincoln's Speech, Sept. 18, 1858.
"While I was at the hotel to-day, an elderly gentleman called upon me to know whether I was really in favor of producing a perfect equality between the negroes and white people. While I had not proposed to myself on this occasion to say much on that subject, yet as the question was asked me I thought I would occupy perhaps five minutes in saying something in regard to it. I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the black and white races -- that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making VOTERS or jurors of negroes, NOR OF QUALIFYING THEM HOLD OFFICE, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any of her man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race."
The Democratic and Republican Parties of that time were very different than the present bodies. The assertion that the "Democratic Party" started the Civil War is nonsense, as the party itself had irreconcialble issues on slavery. That resulted in the party spitting into 3 separate factions in the 1860 election: a pro-Stephen Douglas faction; a John Bell faction; and a John Breckkenridge faction. That division enabled Lincoln's election by the electoral college but wiithout any semblance of a popular mandate.
Note in the image below, that economic inequality exists in historically Republican states as well as in the previously Democratic South.
Black Household Median Income Per $1 of White Household Income
And, again, I challenge you to explain the economic inequalities without racism.
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