Daniel Shuster

[Daniel Shuster @ShusterRTS]

The 1960 Democratic Party Southern Strategy: "The Party With A Heart --- The Party Of The People [...] White Supremacy"

[Aaron @Aaron_Moatz]

@tonkatonkadc @KCKA15 @Wayhix @SaltyGoat17 Alsop doesn’t help your case, it hurts it. It shows the accusation predates any evidence

[Daniel Shuster @ShusterRTS]

@ZaidJilani

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@curtis_yarvin CC: @jacobin

[Daniel Shuster @ShusterRTS]

@Aaron_Moatz One of Johnson’s most effective methods of begging was to literally cry until the person felt sorry for him.

[Aaron @Aaron_Moatz]

The picture on the left is Johnson with Richard Russell, who did not move an inch on civil rights. More often with his southern friends, LBJ took the approach of acting pitiful, saying that none of it was his fault, and inevitable. At any rate, Russell looks like he couldn't care less in this pic.
The picture on the right is with Louis Martin, a journalist and civil rights activist. Not sure what LBJ is bullying him about...

[Aaron @Aaron_Moatz]

If you bring up that the Byrd Organization ruled Virginia like a one-party oligarchy for decades, they tell you of their amazing change of heart. George Wallace, the face of segregation, a miraculous reversal and forgiveness. Richard Russell, leader of the Southern bloc? James Eastland, single-handily responsible for killing 100 civil rights measures? Loyal democrats, forget their names. Planters like Jimmy Carter or the founder of the SPLC? Don’t look into their past.
The left has been completely forgiving of the people most responsible, yet will say things like this, as if a broad “South” is responsible for all problems

[Daniel Shuster @ShusterRTS]

The Democratic Party on Monday:

[SCOTUS Wire @scotus_wire]

🚨 Virginia Democrats indicate that they will appeal today's ruling invalidating the redistricting referendum to the United States Supreme Court.

They ask the Virginia Supreme Court to withhold its mandate.

[Aaron @Aaron_Moatz]

“Our constitution is colorblind.”
- John Marshall Harlan

[Daniel Shuster @ShusterRTS]

@rickperlstein Looking forward to it, love the new cover.

[Aaron @Aaron_Moatz]

People always show their hand with statements like this. Prior to Nixon saying the words “law and order” (I know, scary), there was decades of Jim Crow, and an entire region of the US operating outside of any semblance of constitutional republic/democracy. Obviously you don’t think it was better then, didn’t go downhill afterwords, but you don’t hate those things, you hate Republicans, and that is the point in time when you can delude yourself into blaming them

[Daniel Shuster @ShusterRTS]

@DavidLiptonWI @MattMoco1 @adamoliver09 @bumbadum14 Maybe or probably not

[Daniel Shuster @ShusterRTS]

@MattMoco1 @DavidLiptonWI @adamoliver09 @bumbadum14 lol. Friendliness reminds every one of the well known 1940s-Sacramento-BBQ-Japanese-American-then-call-the-feds cliche.

[Daniel Shuster @ShusterRTS]

@DavidLiptonWI @MattMoco1 @adamoliver09 @bumbadum14 Friendliness is definitional.

[Daniel Shuster @ShusterRTS]

@tonkatonkadc @Aaron_Moatz @Galleyrip66 @AlBuffalo2nite How do you find these people @Aaron_Moatz

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@therealnwn @Aaron_Moatz @Postposterior @dantypo Stay strong nick!

[Daniel Shuster @ShusterRTS]

@Aaron_Moatz @therealnwn @Postposterior @dantypo To recover from such a potent demonstration of irony will require a great deal of fortitude by Nick.

[Aaron @Aaron_Moatz]

And whether the cartoon intends it or not, it shows that people who fly the Confederate flag do not believe it symbolizes slavery and that they are elephant men. It's funny because there is a disconnect between believing the Democratic Party was a symbol of racism for most of its existence..or I mean, the Confederate flag. But yeah lol, what idiots

[Aaron @Aaron_Moatz]

@EnglarBrian @OswaldRErnst @BobbyJEveryday @DschlopesIsBack That quote does not mean what you think it means

[Aaron @Aaron_Moatz]

@RescueRick18 @midlandman303 @hashjenni In 1966 Nixon essentially started his comeback and 1968 presidential run by writing columns, specifically in Southern publications, but national as well. It was his actual “southern strategy.”
This quote was from his May article. You should read the whole thing

[Aaron @Aaron_Moatz]

Sometimes it seems like the left likes to look at “systems” and the right focuses on ideology, but in this case it was more system. In the ‘40s, the south was ideologically diverse, but uniformly controlled by the planter/dem system. Even the most liberal northern democrats fueled this system.
For example, after pure violence/intimidation, the largest cause of disenfranchisement was the “white primary,” a PARTY rule. Even liberal democrats put planters like James Eastland on committees that single-handily blocked civil rights legislation. Both sides of this coalition benefited politically. This system collapsed, despite Democrats trying to maintain it all the way through the civil rights movement. It was a system that couldn’t somehow be transferred. For example, if an even more racist Republican would have replaced Eastland, this new Republican would not have any of the enormous power that Eastland had. It was not primarily an issue of ideology. It was the Democratic Party. People like Carter are actually the best representation of the last stages of this, himself from the planter class and a former segregationist, but essentially non-ideological, willing to do what he needed to for politics, despite being out of his depth