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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019

      Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)

      So far, an hour later, this is only one Tweet, but it seems likely from the framing of the initial Tweet that it's going to completely ignore everything I actually wrote, from the broad themes to the specific examples to the numerous caveats.https://twitter.com/HC_Richardson/status/1152241043573825538 …

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      Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)Verified account @HC_Richardson
      Cherry-picked versions of GOP history argue that the party has been unchanging in its support for black rights and ordinary Americans, but that's just not right. The long history of the GOP has been both glorious- as they argue- and sordid. Let's have a look, shall we? /1 https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1152220958041812992 …
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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019

      Nearly all of the focus of "the parties switched" narrative is on the South, & there are reasons for that, but it impoverishes history to just ignore the whole rest of the country. Moreover, even the South is not a monolith. Let's look at the presidential vote in the South.

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    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019

      I'll use R vote share rather than 2-party vote share for these purposes; both have their uses, but the challenge for Republicans for years was to get a hearing with white Southerners, even when they started abandoning Ds.

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    4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019

      "Deep South"=FL/GA/AL/MS/LA "Border South"=TX/TN/VA/AR "Border States"=MD/DE/MO/KY/WV. The two latter had mostly caught up to the nation in R vote share by Ike's time. The Border South states shifted sharply R between 1940-52.pic.twitter.com/ZAf1KS8whz

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    5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019

      The Deep South was also trending more R by the mid-1940s, but its wild swings from 1964-80 are (unlike the Border South states) more directly attributable to the Dixiecrat 3d party vote & the Southern swing back to Carter. In 1980, the Deep South was still less R than the USA.

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    6. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019

      This, too, is an incomplete picture, however; you have to drill into downticket races like the House & state legislatures to see the long trajectory of Republicans breaking through with white Southerners, much of which was generational & tracked the region's economic progress.

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    7. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019

      I've written at more length some years ago about the seductive oversimplicity of the "Southern Strategy" mythos, which simply assumes that there are no such thing as national security issues, economic issues, or non-racial social issues. http://baseballcrank.com/archives2/2012/07/politicshistory_6.php …

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    8. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019

      The behavior of the various Dixiecrat politicians after 1965-68 illustrates my view of the continuities of the two parties' patterns of behavior. Dixiecrats were, as a group, pandering populists. You'd expect their behavior to track what they believed would win them votes.

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    9. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019

      Others who stayed in the D tent, like Wallace & Byrd, made a bigger show of 'changing'. Maybe that was sincere, maybe it wasn't, but it tended to coincide with the votes they needed to chase.

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    10. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019

      Then there's guys like Strom Thurmond, who switched parties. Thurmond was, as a D, one of the nation's loudest pro-segregation voices. As an R, he mostly abandoned the kind of pro-segregation rhetoric & stances he used as a D. But neither did he do a Wallace-style apologia.

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019

      Thurmond after switching parties tended to focus on national security issues & the courts, the kinds of things that would get him 'New South' Republican votes. Some of those voters had retrograde views on race, some didn't. But all expected a Republican to talk like a Republican.

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        2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019

          In that sense, the fact that racial appeals - which, again, some Republicans in the South have engaged in - typically had to be 'coded' when used by Republicans, where the very same people had done so openly as Democrats, reflects the gravitational pull of the two party styles.

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        3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019

          The politics of racial & other tribal resentments (ethnic, religious, etc) never goes away, & Democrats who claim today that their party is immune now to such things are typically lying to themselves. But the historic principles & styles of the parties affect how those manifest.

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        4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019

          Republicans who want to constrain the role of resentments & identity politics within their coalition can, to this day, draw on a long, rich GOP tradition of neutral, classical-liberal principles. Democrats, by contrast, can only offer age-old cynicism that such principles exist.

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        5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019

          Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Randy Holcombe

          Sorry, the graph includes SC in the Deep South line, NC in the Border South line. Forgot to add those to the Tweet.https://twitter.com/beachboyhhi/status/1152303487830691840 …

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          Randy Holcombe @beachboyhhi
          Replying to @baseballcrank
          You didn’t mention SC. I consider us Deep South.
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        6. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019

          Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)

          I see this thread has resumed. This is wrong, Dred Scott was decided in 1857, *after* the 1856 election & inauguration of James Buchanan. The chronology is important, given Buchanan's lobbying behind the scenes in advance of his inauguralhttps://twitter.com/HC_Richardson/status/1152261965718458368 …

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          Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)Verified account @HC_Richardson
          In 1856, the pro-slavery SCOTUS decided Dred Scott v Sandford, which said that Congress could not stop slavery from moving west, and once there, it must always be protected. Once slave states were a majority, slave owners would make slavery national. American freedom would end./4 pic.twitter.com/O2PvBk6BlJ
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        7. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019

          Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)

          This, OTOH, is exactly the kind of Lincoln 'right to rise' rhetoric I'm talking about, which remains central to Republican ideology about self-reliance & upward mobility to this day.https://twitter.com/HC_Richardson/status/1152261973389840390 …

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          Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)Verified account @HC_Richardson
          In response, IL lawyer Abraham Lincoln, who had joined the GOP by then, outlined the new party's ideology. Society moved forward not through the actions of a few rich men, but through the actions of ordinary men who worked and innovated. /7 pic.twitter.com/PgcpJtE0YO
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        8. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019

          Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)

          This is also wrong. Harrison did not win the popular vote in 1888, and all sorts of shady stuff happened in voting in the 1870s-1880s (Cleveland relied on disenfranchising blacks in the South), but he won enough states to carry the Electoral College.https://twitter.com/HC_Richardson/status/1152288804977467392 …

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          Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)Verified account @HC_Richardson
          In 1888, GOP invented modern campaign financing (!), warned workers to vote GOP, then when GOP candidate Benjamin Harrison lost anyway, switched votes in the Electoral College to put him into the White House. They believed D Cleveland would destroy America, so they had to. /18 pic.twitter.com/W1R06R2IlK
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        9. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019

          Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)

          OK, now that this thread has moved on to "Congressional Republicans made the Panic of 1893 happen on purpose to sabotage Grover Cleveland," I'm gonna move on to better uses of my time.https://twitter.com/HC_Richardson/status/1152288810102861824 …

          Dan McLaughlin added,

          Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)Verified account @HC_Richardson
          When Cleveland won again in 1892 and got control of Congress GOP warned that communists had taken over. They deliberately crashed the economy ten days before his inauguration. The Panic of 1893 put GOP back in control. /20 pic.twitter.com/MzbTeP4neM
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        10. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019

          Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Joseph Karnilowicz

          Yes. Leadership absolutely matters. Strong leaders can get people to follow, but even Lincoln understood that you also have to listen & not just impose elite ideas on the common man. Offer better leadership to today's Republican voters.https://twitter.com/JosephConKarne/status/1152286406267604992 …

          Dan McLaughlin added,

          Joseph Karnilowicz @JosephConKarne
          Replying to @baseballcrank
          Thats a long winded way of saying: Republicans follow leaders—leaders which are independent but not seperate of the geographical/social concerns of its constituents. Lincoln lead the GOP in searching for its “Better Angels” & the “Right to rise”—which Lincoln saw as hand in hand
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        11. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019

          Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Craig Hammond

          The early Republicans were not doctrinaire libertarians, but the Homestead Act was exemplary of Lincoln's Lockean self-reliance ideal: give a man a plot of wilderness, let him reclaim it from nature by sweat of his brow & keep the fruits of his labors.https://twitter.com/JohnCraiHammond/status/1152354742468775938 …

          Dan McLaughlin added,

          Craig Hammond @CraigHPGH
          Replying to @baseballcrank
          The early GOP i)gave land away for free, much of it to immigrants ii)created the system of free, public higher education in the United States. 21st century equivalents are mindlessly dismissed by the GOP as "socialistic."
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        12. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019

          Also, the land grant colleges established under the Morrill Act were funded by the sale of federal land, not perpetual taxpayer exactions, and their focus was on practical education in agriculture.

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        13. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019

          Dan McLaughlin Retweeted

          Polygamy was a new innovation - it had never been legal in America, nor sanctioned by Christian churches. 19th century Republicans were resisting an effort to redefine marriage. Lincoln argued as well that the Founders had intended slavery to die off https://twitter.com/higgins_ke/status/1152372896351825920 …

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        14. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 19 Jul 2019

          Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Dan McLaughlin

          BTW, this is still truehttps://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1024340373018210304 …

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          Dan McLaughlinVerified account @baseballcrank
          (Aside: anybody who talks about Richard Nixon having a "Southern Strategy" & doesn't acknowledge FDR's Southern Strategy is either ignorant or selling you propaganda.)
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        15. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 23 Jul 2019

          Dan McLaughlin Retweeted

          The idea that this is a killer rejoinder misses the point. Lincoln himself stood for leniency & charity towards the defeated Confederates. Grant befriended some of them. Lincoln would likely have said, "let them have their monuments" & focused on policy. https://twitter.com/ASFleischman/status/1153701921099849728 …

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        16. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 23 Jul 2019

          The hard question of Reconstruction, which has never been satisfactorily answered, is how you reconciled Lincoln's view of leniency towards the vanquished white South with vigorous protection of the freed black South.

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        17. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 23 Jul 2019

          But neither Lincoln nor Grant ever started from the position that you should not want to appeal to white Southerners - as a partisan matter, as a matter of personal friendship, as a matter of the American nation. Very much the contrary.

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        18. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 23 Jul 2019

          And yet, much of the "Lincoln's Republicans were not like this" shtick takes as its premise that Lincoln's party would not have wanted *those* people in its ranks.

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        19. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 23 Jul 2019

          Now, where you see the greatest continuity between the GOP of 1856, 1896, 1924, 1956, 1980, 2004, & 2014, is in the Midwest, the real heart of the original party & of revived importance since 2010. Many of the Midwestern Republicans of the past two decades fit that bill.

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        20. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 23 Jul 2019

          Now, as I've noted upthread & many places elsewhere, maintaining the Lincoln-Grant-McKinley-Coolidge-Eisenhower-Reagan line of the party is, in fact, a real challenge in the Age of Trump. The party has had factions like Trump before, but never as leader of the party.

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        21. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 23 Jul 2019

          But it would be useful for historian-written columns like this one to grapple with more of the history & in particular the philosophy of the GOP over time, & not reduce both the Lincoln & Trump era parties to caricature.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/opinion/lincoln-republican-party-trump.html …

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