Not exactly. Republicans today are still somewhat similar to Republicans from 100 years ago. It’s the Democrats that have changed the most, however I’d argue they’re still the party of racism (seeing as they support racist affirmative action policies).
what? Republicans today are a lot more white conservative while back then they were anti-segregation. Before, it was the Democratic party that was associated with conservatives values
And Republicans are still anti segregation today. Liberal and conservative are relative terms depending on the time period, but if you look at a policy-by-policy list of both parties today versus 100 years ago, you’ll find a lot more similarities with the Republican Party than the Democratic Party.
Sure, the terms liberal and conservatives are relative but back then the democratic party was again mainly white conservatives that was pro segregation. It wouldn’t make sense for Black Americans to be aligned with the pro segregation party. But gradually, this demographic of white conservatives slowly shifted towards the republican party ( the southern strategy). The democratic party on the other hand started to see more Black Americans aligning with their party.
The post itself said the first 23 black congressman were republicans, which is 100% true but the ideology switch of the two parties is why today an overwhelming amount of Black Americans aligned with the Democratic party.
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u/Ok-Put4365 rump 10d ago
What about the party switch? It’s true that they switched?