Sawz:

While I accept that it was true during the rise of the KKK that they were Southern Democrats, it is a serious semantic error to think that an 1890 Democrat and 2010 Democrat are in any way similar; the extremist, anti-alien, pro-white wing of current American politics is very much the neocon and fundamentalist right wing, not the left. The Democrats of 1890 were probably right-wing, too. I believe there was a major zig-zag in labels between 1900 and 1970. The leaders of the Civil Rights movement-- JFK, RFK, and LBJ, for examples--were very much on the Democratic and liberal side of the spectrum.

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