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Who freed the slaves?  Abraham Lincoln, a Republican.

Who issued the Supreme Court ruling striking down segregation in
education?  Earl Warren, a Republican.

Who enforced the Supreme Court's ruling by sending in the National
Guard and 1100 Paratroopers to Little Rock, Arkansas?  Dwight
Eisenhower, a Republican.

Who stood in the doorway of the University of Alabama and refused to
let blacks enroll?  George Wallace, a lifelong Democrat.
http://alt.tnt.tv/movies/tntoriginals/wallace/wal.infl.time2.html

Who swung a pick handle and bashed the car roof of a black minister
who was trying to integrate his chain of restaurants, and was later
elected governor of Georgia?  Lester Maddox, a lifelong Democrat.
http://www.gsu.edu/~dsihhj/maddox.htm

Who ordered the use of police dogs and fire hoses to disperse civil
rights demonstrators in Birmingham during the spring of 1963?  Bull
Connor, a lifelong Democrat.
http://www.bham.lib.al.us/Archives/oldsite/BullConnor.htm

Who closed the schools of Little Rock for two years (1958-59) rather
than accept desegregation?  Orville Faubus, a lifelong Democrat.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/little_rock.htm

It was the Democrats who instituted the system of Jim Crow, Democrats
who refused to convict whites for murdering blacks and stated
"Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever!"

It was a group of Democrats who formed the Dixiecrats in 1948.  One of
the precious rights that these Democrats were trying to maintain was
the right to lynch; in fact they included a warning on the ballot that
a vote for Truman would result in the end of lynching (unfortunately
not true).

Really, the Democrats have nothing to brag about on the subject of
race.  Even if we accept the notion that most racists switched from
the Democrats to the Republicans around 1964, the fact remains that
the Democrats had them when they were lynching blacks, and segregating
high schools and drinking fountains and restaurants and buses.  We've
had them when about the worst you could say about them is that they're
opposed to affirmative action.

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 "Back when they supported segregation, Lott and Thurmond
  were Democrats." -- Ann Coulter