Lindsey Graham Quotes

The main source of Republican votes was Anglo White males. However, the demographics of the nation had been changing for a few decades where the non-Whites are the fastest growing demographic subgroup. The projection was clearly that Anglo Whites would cease to be the majority in the coming years and each year they became slightly smaller. This caused many of the Republican politicians to redouble their efforts to appeal (sometimes pander) to non-Anglo White males in order to gain a majority. However, many of the positions that appealed to White Males—like immigration control and deportation of "illegals"—often offended many of the new growing demographic groups who voted in larger numbers against the Republicans. The money and manpower that was needed to try and produce a slim majority gave fewer and fewer resources to those Republicans who wanted to campaign heavily with the current minorities and to be majorities in order to get an even higher percentage to non-Anglo White Males. So each year Republicans were losing more and more ground with the very groups that were becoming a larger and larger voting bloc. Hence the "Death Spiral".

On why he joined the Republican party:

The press secretary found the President very morose the day after his great triumph of passing the Civil Rights Bill of 1964. Moyers asked why he looked so sad.

This was art of the Nixon "Southern Strategy" to alienate the white supremacists and racists from the Democratic Party with Civil Rights legislation and rhetoric, and get most of them to become Republicans. But as Phillips observed, when Negroes began voting in significant numbers in the South the party switching really accelerated.

He was providing historical perspective to the 2016 Republican Party split in which nativism and anti-immigration was a major factor.

On March 20, 1854 a group of disaffected politicians met in a schoolhouse in Rippon, Wisconsin:. It was the birth of the Republican party.

He was referring to the then Republican party. When the original Republican Party was founded, it was the much more liberal of the American political parties. After Lincoln and Emancipation, the vast majority of Blacks supported the Republicans. Most feminists of the time were also abolitionists and also supported the party, as did the Hispanics. Most of the young people were Republican. The Democrats were an “old white guy” party/ Over the years the Republican Party grew more conservative, and after Democratic President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Act, almost all the racists in the country shifted from the Democratic party to the Republican and this alienated Blacks still further. The Republican Party opposed the Equal Rights Amendment and Affirmative Action, and then despite the efforts of President George W. Bush and Senator John McCain killed immigration reform which alienated most Hispanics. Women and youth shifted awar from the Republican party. Jeb Bush, who married a Hispanic and spoke Spanish fluently, also attracted women and many youth, but he was a Republican exception.

While the existence of many racists who tried to delegitimize our first Black President is clear, the good news is that they were a minority of Americans and despite the lies and slanders, the majority of American chose Obama—a Black man—as their resident, not once but twice.

The KKK were riling up the white shrimpers because Vietnamese-American fishermen were fishing in ‘their waters”. The Southern Poverty Law Center, on behalf of the Vietnamese Fishermen, sued the KKK in Federal Court and won an injunction prohibiting the Klan from continuing its training program to burn the Vietnamese-American’s boats. Some of the Vietnamese-American fisherman had fought agaist the Viet Cong in Vietnam before coming to American and they armed themselves with shotguns and rifles, Faced with legal and possible violent resistance, Beam and the Klansmen disappeared from the area.