Did LBJ really say "I'll have those n*****s voting Democrat for two-hundred years" when passing the Great Society legislation?
While Johnson was famous for being coarse, I’ve yet to come across a reputable historian putting those words into his mouth. The source of this quote is a book by Ronald Kessler which is not held in very high regard. Its always worth remembering that Johnson was a highly complicated man. He was often torn between political expediency and his ideals. I’ll give you a classic example.Johnson was a true “son of the South”and for many years he caucused with the “Dixiecrats,” powerful Southern Democratic senators who successfully blocked all civil rights legislation for over 20 years! In their company its a pretty good guess that he used the “N” word. Yet as soon as Johnson became president he turned on the “Dixiecrats” and forced them to pass his civil rights legislation. He well knew that they would never forgive him for this, but Johnson saw no point in possessing the power of the presidency to do good and not using it.His civil rights agenda cost him much more than it gained him. In addition to the unpopularity of the Vietnam War, the fact that many of Johnson’s former Southern political allies now hated him was a major factor in his decision not to run in 1968. Many times he referred to the fact that after his passage of two major civil rights bills that the South would now be voting Republican for generations to come.He was right, too!!
Which Democrat said this: "I'll have these (n-words) voting Democrat for the next 200 years"?
Obviously, a racist. LBJ said that the Democrats had lost the south for a generation as a result of his signing the civil rights legislation. African Americans aren't impressed with your idiotic nonsense but your racist friends probably appreciate it. >< FYI, During the Great Depression, Johnson worked for one of Roosevelt’s New Deal Agencies, the National Youth Administration. Johnson was ordered by Washington to have a black leader as a close advisor, Johnson feared he would be "run out of Texas", feeling implementation had to be slow as so to not upset deep- rooted customs. Despite this Johnson made great efforts to alleviate black unemployment; 50% by 1932. Despite privately referring to African Americans as "n&&&&s", he sometimes stayed at black colleges and the African American community found him unusually helpful. Johnson however did little to help other minorities such as Hispanics because, there was little political pressure from Washington and Johnson stood to politically gain little from helping them. LBJ and Robert Byrd were 2 peas in a pod. The CRA happened because LBJ knew it would cause Blacks to vote for the Democratic Party and it did to this day. He was just a racist who loved his party. However, it was a law needed for 200 years and its too bad he gets the credit for it. May he rot in hell.
What racist democrat president said, "I'll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years."?
Okay seriously...stop with the quotes. It's getting old.
If Abraham Lincoln were still alive today would he be a Democrat?
When the republican party first started in the 1800's it was a northern liberal party and 1800's democrats were southern conservatives that defended the Confederate flag.Abraham Lincoln was a moderate liberal northern republican who started civil rights and ended slavery. Everything changed in 1964 when democrat president Lyndon Johnson ended Jim Crow Segregation and all the southern conservative democrats switched over to the republican party and democrats became a northern liberal party. That's why today's republican party is a southern white conservative party and today's democrat party is a northern liberal party with 90% of the black and latino voters. In today's Gop party moderate liberal republicans like Abraham Lincoln don't exist any more and today most southern conservative republicans defend the Confederate Flag. That's why liberal Obama praises and looks up to liberal Abraham Lincoln.
How did the Democrats and Republicans switch sides on the political spectrum?
The GOP was started from the ashes of the Whigs. In its early incarnation, both the GOP and Democrats were pretty regional parties. Democrats had real influence in the the south and the political machines of major cities. The whig party had a lot of southern support and imploded over slavery. The Northern whigs cobbled together a working coalition. Part of that initial coalition were largely German Social Democrats that had immigrated from Europe. Karl Marx was a correspondent for a republican newspaper and encouraged his followers to join the GOP on the ground the industrialists were more advanced than land owning interests. In the US, Henry George was much more influential at the time than Marx. Those two men disliked each other rather intensely. HG was a life long democrat and rejected much of Marx’s intellectual framework, but had very kind things to say about LaSalle and Prodhon. That meant that in the early era, the US left was divided in large part.In the early 1900’s Lafollete lead Social democrats from the GOP into the democratic party. They would become a real force there by FDR’s New Deal(which was essentially a rebranding of the 1928/32 Socialist party platform. The Racist forces in the Democratic party was largely willing to accept New Deal Policies and FDR depended on them. The coalition broke down in the JFK/LBJ era. Baldwin–Kennedy meeting - WikipediaBlacks became a firmly democratic constituency, Democrats like Strom Thurmond left the party. Goldwater carried only a few southern states besides his home state, but that marked the birth of modern conservatism. A bunch of Republicans who had previously supported civil rights, like Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren would later become democrats.
Didn't the blacks get the vote in 1870, making it 148 years they've had the vote? 148 is greater than 100.
Look at the first sentence of that article, which ends with “… despite black people facing barriers to voting in America until 1965.”Jim Crow laws kept a lot of black people from being able to vote. That's what a lot of the Civil Rights movement was about: finally getting to vote in the areas of the country where most black people lived (the South).Also, here's a fun fact: once upon a time the party that most black people supported were the Republicans, but in the Civil Rights era the Democrats for the most part decided to support equal rights legislation, and the Republicans doubled down on resisting it. A lot of pro-segregation Democrats, called the Dixiecrats, switched parties. It also won Democrats the majority of black support up until the present day.
Why was LBJ so against Civil Rights for Blacks ?
By DAVID A. NICHOLS, New York Times Published: September 12, 2007 FIFTY years ago this week, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a law providing voting protections for blacks known as the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Eisenhower complained in 1967 that if his critics felt “there was anything good done” in his presidency, “they mostly want to prove that it was somebody else that did it and that I went along as a passenger.” The “somebody else” in this instance was Lyndon B. Johnson, who in 1957 was the Senate’s Democratic majority leader. Historians have consistently credited Johnson for the bill’s passage. Yes, Johnson played a role, but hardly the one his advocates might imagine: Eisenhower and his attorney general, Herbert Brownell Jr., first proposed strong legislation, and it was Johnson and his Southern cronies who weakened it beyond recognition. Johnson wanted a cosmetic bill that would enhance his presidential ambitions without alienating his white Southern base. If Eisenhower’s original proposals had passed, the cause of civil rights would have been significantly advanced. Still, the Congressional deadlock had been broken, opening the door for the passage of another Eisenhower-backed civil rights bill in 1960 and the more famous acts that Lyndon Johnson, as president, championed in 1964 and ’65.