--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What's really ironic, Robert, is that the "language of race", as the > author puts it in his article, is virtually the exclusive domain NOT > of the Republicans but of the Dixiecrats of the Old South WHO WERE > ALL DEMOCRATS. > > And even today, that still holds true: a recent poll found that 1/3 > of all WHITE DEMOCRATS harbour racist feelins towards Obama AND THIS > FACT ALONE COULD COST HIM THE WHITE HOUSE...NOT REPUBICANS! > > See: http://tinyurl.com/456bmp
Yes, this is true... When LBJ passed the Civil Rights Act, is when they turned. And the comment that Jesse Jackson shows that black people can hold race against Obama. That would be the biggest irony of all. R.G.