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Why the Right Went Wrong

Conservatism-- From Goldwater to the Tea Party and Beyond
May 17, 2016voisjoe1_0 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This is an excellent history of the rightward shift of the Republican Party from the days of Goldwater to Trump. Until the 60's, the Republican Party was mainly northern with a mix of conservatives, moderates, and liberals until the passing of the Civil Rights Laws initiated by President Johnson (upon which Southern Blacks were allowed to vote). The Dixicrats (Southern white Democrats) fled from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party. Northern Blacks, slowly migrated from the Party of the Emancipator to the Democratic Party as they saw the racist Southern Whites taking over the Republican Party. The newly voting Southern Blacks became Democratic. Then the Tea Party (mostly older whites) slowly purged moderates from the party. Today the Republican Party is mainly a white senior male dominated party that wins elections largely by gerrymandering districts (winning 65% of the seats with 49% of the votes) and by instituting neo-Jim Crow voting laws to suppress “urban” (read non-white and young) voters.