• Audacious@sh.itjust.works
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    27 days ago

    Consequently, the parties switched sides shortly after the civil rights act of 1964 passed. What you are seeing today is the result of decades-long efforts coming to fruition for that conservative-racist party.

  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    27 days ago

    Explanation: In 1865, Radical Republicans were called such because of their radically pro-civil rights platform, including the abolition of slavery and total legal equality for Black Americans. They were later be instrumental in passing Federal anti-segregation laws (which, unfortunately, were struck down by the Supreme Court).

    … I could not guarantee the same for 2021 ‘radical’ Republicans.

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      27 days ago

      the slavery/anti-slavery thing was always a north-south thing, not a democrat-republican thing. Republicans were powerful in the north and then their base shifted to people from the south. Democrats shifted northward. As they shifted, so did their stance on things.