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Which political party has "flip-flopped" the most on the race issue?

* Democrats fought to expand slavery while Republicans fought to end it. * Democrats passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. * Democrats fought against anti-lynching laws. * Democrats fought to keep blacks in slavery and away from the polls, and they started the Ku Klux Klan to terrorize them. * Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, is well known for having been a "Keagle" in the Ku Klux Klan. * Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, personally filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14 straight hours to keep it from passage. * Democrats passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil right laws enacted by Republicans. * Democrats declared that they would rather vote for a “yellow dog” than vote for a Republican, because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks. * Democrat President Woodrow Wilson, reintroduced segregation throughout the federal government immediately upon taking office in 1913. * Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first appointment to the Supreme Court was a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, Sen. Hugo Black, Democrat of Alabama. * Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt's choice for vice president in 1944 was Harry Truman, who had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City in 1922. * Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt resisted Republican efforts to pass a federal law against lynching. * Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt opposed integration of the armed forces. * Democrat Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd were the chief opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. * Democrat public safety commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor, in Birmingham, Ala., unleashed vicious dogs and turned fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators. * Democrats were who Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the other protestors were fighting. * Democrat Georgia Governor Lester Maddox "brandished an ax hammer to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant. * Democrat Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963, declaring there would be segregation forever. * Democrat Arkansas Governor Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of Little Rock public schools. * Democrat Senator John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act. * Democrat President John F. Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King. * Democrat President John F. Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI. * Democrat President Bill Clinton's mentor was U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright, an Arkansas Democrat and a supporter of racial segregation. * Democrat President Bill Clinton interned for J. William Fulbright in 1966-67. * Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright signed the Southern Manifesto opposing the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision. * Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright joined with the Dixiecrats in filibustering the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964. * Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Regarding the Republican Party, historians report that while Democrats were busy passing laws to hurt blacks, Republicans devoted their time to passing laws to help blacks. Republicans were primarily responsible for the following Civil Rights legislation: 1. The Emancipation Proclamation 2. The 13th Amendment 3. The 14th Amendment 4. The 15th Amendment 5. The Reconstruction Act of 1867 6. The Civil Rights of 1866 7. The Enforcement Act of 1870 8. The Forced Act of 1871 9. The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 10. The Civil Rights Act of 1875 11. The Freeman Bureau 12. The Civil Rights Act of 1957 13. The Civil Rights Act of 1960 14. The United State Civil Rights Commission And gave strong bi-partisan support and sponsorship for the following legislation 15. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 17. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 18. The 1968 Civil Rights Acts 19. The Equal Opportunity Act of 1972 20. Goals and Timetables for Affirmative Action Programs 21. Comprehensive Employment Training Act of 1973 22. Voting Rights Act of Amendment of 1982 23. Civil Rights Act of 1983 24. Federal Contract Compliance and Workforce Development Act of 1988

Public Comments

1. That was history, Now black is Presidential nominee and many whites are voting McCain because they don't want to see a black president.
2. dems
3. All this and Democrats still count on 90% of the black vote. It's sad.
4. my head started spinning after the first fifteen stars... my answer is it doesn't matter anymore, slavery was the past, this is the present where everyone is equal we all bleed the same color
5. You just don't understand, it's all ok as long as you give away more free stuff than the Republicans....
6. Don't ask about the Terrorist Bill Ayers, or Reverend Race-baiter Jeremiah Wright, just bend over so the black guy can raise your taxes.
7. Actually his title was "Grand Keagle" Great post.
8. The Democrats-Most of it happened under Kennedy when he adopted Civil Rights as a key component of his administration's domestic policy while the Republicans regarded the black vote as a given and really did nothing to promote civil rights legislation. From then on the Democratic (Northern) party built alliances with various civil rights groups and froze out the Southern segregationists (many of those like Strom Thurman became Republican). The Black vote has been over 80%, and Blacks and Democrats have been in bed together politically ever since.
9. You have allot of time on your hands. You forgot the list of republicans but its so long you would need to use all your memory space to fill it. One important note guess who the KKK is endorsing for president. That's right Mccain/Palin. The Aryan brotherhood is endorsing McCain/Palin. wow
10. For those that answer that was history, it's not history to the blacks in this country. Look at the words of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Rev Wright. They promote hate between the races. I was taught to respect everyone, regardless of race, creed, economic situation, religion, age, you name it. My parents raised me to sir and ma'am everyone and treat them as equals. Those named above feel the whites in this country owe them something, they don't teach equality or to treat others with respect.