Doug: I don't think you read my post. You have responded to something I did not say. What I said was this: It may be, that in 1964, or in the time of the Eisenhower administration, that there were a larger number of racists in the Democratic party than the Republican. I said, 1964 was a long time ago. We are no longer living in 1964. If you go back another hundred years, to 1864, you can find back to a time when the Republicans were for freeing the slaves. Those days are gone. The Republicans of today have no more in common with Lincoln than Christian Identity has with Jesus Christ.

But a lot of water has gone under the bridge since 1964. Since 1964 we have had Richard Nixon's Southern Strategy. We have had Ronald Regan reaching out to the bigot vote. We had Strom Thurmond cross over and become a Republican. And Jesse Helms. And the gentleman from Texas, who just retired, I believe he was once a Democrat. A Dixiecrat. Those guys all walked over to the other side of the floor. And they represented a trend. Where the Democratic Party had been a coalition of northern liberals and southern conservatives, the Republican Party skimmed off all those southern conservatives. And "conservative" may not necessarily mean racist, but it often sure enough does imply racist.

And finally, it is true, as you say, that Eisenhower sent troops to Little Rock. It is also true that he didn't want to. Moreover, it is also true that Eisenhower, sitting face to face with Earl Warren, tried to persuade the newly-appointed Chief Justice to uphold segregated schoos. That is well documented.