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@averagejoe1 saidC’mon, Joe, you’re not puzzled. You have lots of things to say about why Trump resisters resist. Just now I went to one of your posts and saw “liberals simply cannot digest common sense”. You often sprinkle derogatory comments into your posts.
How can happy times be here 'again', they are already here. It is puzzling why more people don't jump on Trump's band wagon.
The post that was quoted here has been removedI realize you despise that time period because older people were still valued.
It was a time when minds were changing towards Civil Rights as many whites championed Civil Rights like the Rev. Billy Graham. In fact, Ike was the first to get the ball rolling regarding Civil Rights, and yes, he was a white male Republican.
@whodey saidYou really just make this crap up as you go along, don't you?:
I realize you despise that time period because older people were still valued.
It was a time when minds were changing towards Civil Rights as many whites championed Civil Rights like the Rev. Billy Graham. In fact, Ike was the first to get the ball rolling regarding Civil Rights, and yes, he was a white male Republican.
And among other things, the liberals - the mostly northern liberals like Hubert Humphrey and some others - were pushing hard to have a meaningful plank about civil rights.
Harry Truman actually had a fairly aggressive program for pursuing the issue of segregation in the country, but he knew that at the convention in the summer of 1948 there would not be a lot of support for that. And he wanted as peaceful a convention as possible. He wanted to try to hold the party together. So he opposed the minority plank through his surrogates at the convention.
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The platform plank they were pushing included things like an anti-lynching law. They were also pushing to oppose school segregation, which was essentially the way of life, not only in the South but all over the country. They wanted to try to end job discrimination and access to public facilities on the basis of race. Got done in the 1960s, but in 1948 that was a very hot topic.
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And in the end, by a very narrow vote, that 1948 Democratic convention adopted Hubert Humphrey's minority plank. And the hardest rocks on the far side of the party from the Deep South literally walked out. The Mississippi delegation walked out in its entirety, about half of the Alabama delegation. About three dozen delegates in toto walked out of the convention and vowed to nominate their own Dixiecrat candidate for president, Strom Thurmond from South Carolina, which they did.
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94011842
@whodey saidHe was hardly a Republican as currently defined. “As a moderate Republican, Eisenhower was able to achieve numerous legislative victories despite a Democratic majority in Congress during six of his eight years in office. In addition to continuing most of the New Deal and Fair Deal programs of his predecessors (Franklin Roosevelt and Truman, respectively), he strengthened the Social Security program, increased the minimum wage and created the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.”
I realize you despise that time period because older people were still valued.
It was a time when minds were changing towards Civil Rights as many whites championed Civil Rights like the Rev. Billy Graham. In fact, Ike was the first to get the ball rolling regarding Civil Rights, and yes, he was a white male Republican.
https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/dwight-d-eisenhower
@no1marauder saidAnd here I thought we were talking about the 1950's.
You really just make this crap up as you go along, don't you?:
And among other things, the liberals - the mostly northern liberals like Hubert Humphrey and some others - were pushing hard to have a meaningful plank about civil rights.
Harry Truman actually had a fairly aggressive program for pursuing the issue of segregation in the country, but he knew that ...[text shortened]... om South Carolina, which they did.
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94011842
LOL.
@js357 saidHaving said all that, you still find it too painful admitting he championed Civil Rights.
He was hardly a Republican as currently defined. “As a moderate Republican, Eisenhower was able to achieve numerous legislative victories despite a Democratic majority in Congress during six of his eight years in office. In addition to continuing most of the New Deal and Fair Deal programs of his predecessors (Franklin Roosevelt and Truman, respectively), he strengthened the So ...[text shortened]... of Health, Education and Welfare.”
https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/dwight-d-eisenhower
Very telling.