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Demos are Donkeys wrote:

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

   Wow, can't get much more stupid than this.