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**Hftqdxpm** · 05-29-2012, 07:10 PM

........... Even David Duke converted from Democrat to Republican that same year (1981).

I wouldn't argue the details of your post but the possible implication of the cause and effect with Dukes changing parties is a bit misleading. Dukes was a Democrat to begin with because the GOP is the party of Lincoln and by the time he ran for office the Democratic Party had become the party which seemed to carry the water for the Civil Rights movement and therefore was considered by likes of Dukes to be the party of the African-American (or whatever Dukes chose to call them). He made a choice of, what in his mind, was the lessor of two evils.

05-29-2012, 07:10 PM	#15
Hftqdxpm Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 450 Senior Member	........... Even David Duke converted from Democrat to Republican that same year (1981). I wouldn't argue the details of your post but the possible implication of the cause and effect with Dukes changing parties is a bit misleading. Dukes was a Democrat to begin with because the GOP is the party of Lincoln and by the time he ran for office the Democratic Party had become the party which seemed to carry the water for the Civil Rights movement and therefore was considered by likes of Dukes to be the party of the African-American (or whatever Dukes chose to call them). He made a choice of, what in his mind, was the lessor of two evils.
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