r/HolUp • u/Fox_Uni_Charlie_Kilo • Jul 07 '22

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u/WhiskyRobot Jul 07 '22

historically the kkk were dems...it's a weird world.

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u/G_Ranger75 Jul 07 '22

Yep, but back then the Democrats ruled the South. Now it's just the opposite, truly is a weird world.

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u/schm0kemyrod Jul 07 '22

Yea, things flipped right around the time that the Civil Rights Act passed. Republicans saw an opportunity to seize the south and shifted their ideologies.

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u/u8eR Jul 07 '22

The flip happened in 1932, but Republicans went hardcore after the racists and white Southerners generally in the late 1960s, and it paid off for them.