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**Opperioav** · 01-24-2006, 04:16 PM

I didn't know many protesters here in the South but my husband met a few. One was also introduced to my husband's fists after spitting on my husband. Thankfully though, the South has never been like the East and West Coasts, where the drugs of the sixties, "free love" and war protesters were most prominant.
Race and abortion were only part of the reason for the switch. You have to look at the overall picture.
Some people will always balk at a President who is religious. Remember how many people were worried about putting a Catholic in the White House? Now most folks believe that JFK was the best thing since sliced bread. Some didn't like Jimmy Carter because he was "too religious" when in the end, he was nothing more than a lame duck and religion didn't even come into play.

If you'll stop trying to insinuate that one spitting protestor represents the millions of patriotic americans who agreed the war was an abominable crime against our soldiers, then I won't try to claim that everybody who votes republican believes in burning foreign babies with napalm. How's that for a deal?

I wasn't aware that drug use is any less in the south than it is anywhere else?

I do remember the concerns about Kenedy's faith. I also remember that those concerns were most pronounced in the bible belt.

So it looks like you agree with me that the white southern migration from the democratic to republican parties started with the civil rights movement?

I don't really remember any democratic platforms that contained a "free love" plank. I do remember when (democrat) Richard Daly told his cops to beat the shit out of the protestors in chicago in '68. If the white south was really all about hating protestors and "free love" hippies, that should have cemented them to the democratic party for years.
Oh that's right - I forgot - white southerners were busy voting for George Wallace for president that year.

01-24-2006, 04:16 PM	#21
Opperioav Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 381 Senior Member	I didn't know many protesters here in the South but my husband met a few. One was also introduced to my husband's fists after spitting on my husband. Thankfully though, the South has never been like the East and West Coasts, where the drugs of the sixties, "free love" and war protesters were most prominant. Race and abortion were only part of the reason for the switch. You have to look at the overall picture. Some people will always balk at a President who is religious. Remember how many people were worried about putting a Catholic in the White House? Now most folks believe that JFK was the best thing since sliced bread. Some didn't like Jimmy Carter because he was "too religious" when in the end, he was nothing more than a lame duck and religion didn't even come into play. If you'll stop trying to insinuate that one spitting protestor represents the millions of patriotic americans who agreed the war was an abominable crime against our soldiers, then I won't try to claim that everybody who votes republican believes in burning foreign babies with napalm. How's that for a deal? I wasn't aware that drug use is any less in the south than it is anywhere else? I do remember the concerns about Kenedy's faith. I also remember that those concerns were most pronounced in the bible belt. So it looks like you agree with me that the white southern migration from the democratic to republican parties started with the civil rights movement? I don't really remember any democratic platforms that contained a "free love" plank. I do remember when (democrat) Richard Daly told his cops to beat the shit out of the protestors in chicago in '68. If the white south was really all about hating protestors and "free love" hippies, that should have cemented them to the democratic party for years. Oh that's right - I forgot - white southerners were busy voting for George Wallace for president that year.
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