My point stands, and is actually reinforced.

They were Socially Conservative.

They were afraid of change.”

Denial gets you no where- your point flonders.

They were Democrats that opposed civil rights. Vestages still remain in the forms of Jimmy Carter (anti-Semite) and Robert Byrd (KKK member). Many social consvatives supported the movement, most notable one Dr. Martin Luther King who actually spear headed it. He was a consevative baptist minister.

“Historically, the solidly Democratic South had emerged in the wake of Reconstruction, the period following the Civil War when the Republican Party worked to help African-Americans make the transition from slavery to freedom, and to secure their civil, political and voting rights.”

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixiecrat

Note the part “when the Republican Party worked to help African-Americans make the transition from slavery to freedom”.

Placing in onus of opposition to the civil rights movement on one political iealology is a misunderstanding of history. A liberal institution, a branch of the Democrat party, were the biggest opposition to civil rights formed because Republicans were trying to help African America make the adjustment.

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Conservative Southern Dixie-Crats were opposed to the civil rights movement. They were Democrat in name only, and only for a short time at that.

My point stands, and is actually reinforced.

They were Socially Conservative.

They were afraid of change.

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So the Left “invented” Communism, you say.

I would counter that the Right “invented” Fascism.

That’s pure idiocy- revisionist history balderdash.

Democrats were the biggest opposition to the southern civil rights movement. The left also invented Communism- a idealogical economical model that degenerates to a state form of legalized slavery.

Don’t be an elitist, sitting on your glass house roof slinging stones hoping no one will sling back. I’m sitting here with a catapult.

Look what it has turned the democrat party into! A cesspool of anti-American activity and hate America propaganda.

This struggle between Left and Right has been around since the begining, and really took off here in America with the Labor Wars of the early 20th century.

But THIS, what we’re talking about here, really started post-WW2, with the integration of the armed forces, public school integration and the early civil rights movement of the 50’s.

Long-accepted social institutions and long-trusted social mores began to be questioned and scrutinized.

Conservatives like yourselves are nothing more than the decendants of those who were opposed, frightened and threatened by the civil-rights movement.

The very term “conservative” or “traditionalist” harkens back to the time before all this turmoil to when everybody just KNEW THEIR PLACE and didn’t rock the boat, ask too many questions, or demand better treatment.

My side, the Left, questioned these institutions and social mores and we found them to be lacking – and needing change.

Your side, finds comfort in tradition and with maintaining the status-quo.

In my honest opinion, I think for American to be strong and unique – we need BOTH sides to be vocal. This cultural “war”, is a good thing. It keeps Americans debating what they feel is wrong with America and what they can do to change it. It keeps things fresh and out in the open.

That’s why they have allied themselves with our enemies; the enemy of their enemy is their friend.