GOP from the beginning was the party of Big Business, strong military, US national identity
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Replying to @arthur_affect @smoothkobra
Democrats party of populism, the "working man"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @smoothkobra
it's just the racist vote moved from one to the other and distorted everything around it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @smoothkobra
the fact that modern GOPers can call themselves the party of America First while flying the Rebel flag says it all
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Replying to @arthur_affect
if the gop wasnt the party of racism, i think alot more minorities would vote gop. interesting thought experiment
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Replying to @marcushjohnson @smoothkobra
well the Trump GOP now is basically just the Dixiecrats, they've straight up abandoned everything else
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Replying to @arthur_affect
yeah pre civil rights gop used to get like 25-33% of black vote. would be interesting to see what a non racist gop would get
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Replying to @marcushjohnson @smoothkobra
the black vote was solid GOP at the turn of the 20th century
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Replying to @arthur_affect @smoothkobra
people often condescendingly say it was just bc of the memory of Lincoln but it wasn't just that
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Replying to @arthur_affect @smoothkobra
it was that white populism kept defaulting back to racist white nationalism
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there were a lot of Dem populists who tried. William Jennings Bryan was outspokenly anti racist
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