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 @smoothkobra
they're not very religious, they hate Big Business, they want the US military to withdraw and let Putin do his thing
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Replying to @arthur_affect
great analysis, i think early on i called trump a dixiecrat lol
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Replying to @marcushjohnson @smoothkobra
a Dixiecrat from New York welcome to 2016
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Replying to @arthur_affect
haha white nationalism can come from anywhere, unfortunately
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sometimes I think the 13th Amendment wouldn't have passed if white northerners didn't hate southerners so much bc of the war
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Replying to @arthur_affect
i wonder sometimes about the period after the war. if reconstruction went all the way through what would the us look like now
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Replying to @marcushjohnson @smoothkobra
Reconstruction gets a bad rap. A lot of people really tried but had the legs cut from under them
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