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TheRealNorth

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2. There was a 20-30 year period (1900-1930)

Reply to Kind of Blue (Original post)

Fri Aug 16, 2019, 10:50 AM

Aug 2019

Where there was a split between the Progressives and Corporatists. Most progressives tended to vote Republican (exception would be 1912 when Teddy Roosevelt ran as an independent) until they had enough of the Corporatists after the Great Depression began and abandoned the Republicans to start the take over of the Democratic Party.

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The Lily White Movement. [View all] Kind of Blue Aug 2019 OP

So it wasn't Reagan and Goldwater that pushed the GOP into overt racism after all. The Polack MSgt Aug 2019 #1

Yeah, I have no doubt that they'd be thrilled, too. Kind of Blue Aug 2019 #3

There was a 20-30 year period (1900-1930) TheRealNorth Aug 2019 #2

Thanks for this, TheRealNorth. Kind of Blue Aug 2019 #4