In this movie, the two parties appear to be 'reversed'.
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carthur27 — 15 years ago(June 05, 2010 06:10 PM)
"the modern South is much less poor than it was back in the thirties, which makes it easier for them to support the party of the rich"
I'll agree that the South is "less poor than it was back in the thirties," but before referring to the Republican Party as the "party of the rich," you might want to consider these 2 exit polls from the 2008 Presidential Election:
51% of the people with assets greater than $10 million voted for Obama (CBS)
52% of those making $200,000 voted for Obama (Newsweek)
Then there's the Prince & Associates survey that had two-thirds of those worth more than $30 million supporting Obama.
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carthur27 — 15 years ago(June 05, 2010 06:23 PM)
"The Republican Party's success in the south is based entirely on playing the race card"
I'd like to see you name even one piece of legislation from the Republican Party that demonstrates their "success in the south is based entirely on playing the race card?" -
dlg-2 — 10 years ago(September 26, 2015 03:43 PM)
Oh ye of massive ignorance:
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GuyOnTheLeft — 12 years ago(April 30, 2013 08:40 AM)
Mostly right, but the conservative wing of the GOP came to the forefront in 1964 with Goldwater's nomination, and was strong in 1976 as well when Reagan almost wrested the nomination away from Ford.
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gevansmd — 14 years ago(October 17, 2011 09:09 PM)
Interesting revisionist history. Since the GOP supported the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts in higher proportion than the Democrats, why would bigoted Democratic southerners switch parties? The southern state Democrats, including Al Gore's father, voted against both acts. They desserted the party because of McGovern and then after Carter, even though he was one of their own and it was mostly over "values" issues, not race. Nixon's so called "Southern Strategy" is a myth invented to explain the shellacking the Democrats took in 1972. And Nixon himself, for all his Cold War bluster was a liberal. Who do you think started the EPA, Food Stamps, etc., in the late 60's, early 70's?
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GuyOnTheLeft — 12 years ago(April 30, 2013 08:38 AM)
Why don't you go look up how many votes Democrat Lyndon Johnson got in the deepest of deep South states (Mississippi and Alabama) in 1964 when he won in a national landslide. It is pretty obvious it was LBJ who really lost the South for Democrats,
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AndrewGS — 10 years ago(January 12, 2016 08:15 PM)
Iselin and Jordan were both of the same party; there are few indications as to which party it is except that Mrs. Iselin negatively references Mr. Stevenson, presumably Adlai Stevenson, maybe indicating that they are (conservative) Democrats.
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johnston.scot — 10 years ago(February 04, 2016 02:31 PM)
It's pretty clear they're both Republicans:
- Using Lincoln for symbolic value.
- Iselin may not exactly
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Sen. McCarthy, but he's of the same ilk. - The divide between Iselin and Jordan makes sense in the Republican party; it doesn't really in the Democratic party, since obviously neither is a southerner.