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[S'task]

They'll always give you that "the parties flipped" line.

I once saw @S'task do an excellent takedown of that bullshit line, and can never reproduce it to the same quality.

*cough*

I don't think I've written anything like that on TS. I think you're thinking about something someone wrote on SB where he demonstrated the long term presidential voting history of southern states showcasing how they began shifting towards Republicans long, LONG before the Voting Rights Act and the supposed "party switch" happened, and how there was a stronger correlation between the growth of a successful middle class in a state and the rise of voting Republican... oh and that Black voters began drifting towards the Democrats also long before the supposed "party switch" specifically along with the rise of the welfare state under FDR...

 

[Zyobot]

*cough*

I don't think I've written anything like that on TS. I think you're thinking about something someone wrote on SB where he demonstrated the long term presidential voting history of southern states showcasing how they began shifting towards Republicans long, LONG before the Voting Rights Act and the supposed "party switch" happened, and how there was a stronger correlation between the growth of a successful middle class in a state and the rise of voting Republican... oh and that Black voters began drifting towards the Democrats also long before the supposed "party switch" specifically along with the rise of the welfare state under FDR...

Well, you did write this, noting how FDR and LBJ's landslide victories were exceptions to the longer trend of more and more Southern states gravitating towards the Republicans, thanks to economic growth and less reliance on federal investment. Not to mention declining nostalgia for antebellum agrarianism, since the Confederate "old guard" was dying off and, eventually, gone by the time the South became GOP country.

 

[S'task]

Well, you did write this, noting how FDR and LBJ's landslide victories were exceptions to the longer trend of more and more Southern states gravitating towards the Republicans, thanks to economic growth and less reliance on federal investment. Not to mention declining nostalgia for antebellum agrarianism, since the Confederate "old guard" was dying off and, eventually, gone by the time the South became GOP country.

Ahh... yeah... that was a shadow of the post that was written that went into even more details with maps and the like back on SB...

 

[Zyobot]

Ahh... yeah... that was a shadow of the post that was written that went into even more details with maps and the like back on SB...

Wow, really? Not an SB member myself, but judging by what I've seen here, you seem to put an awful lot of thought and research into your historical commentary (which makes me curious as to whatever you have on there).

 

[S'task]

Wow, really? Not an SB member myself, but judging by what I've seen here, you seem to put an awful lot of thought and research into your historical commentary (which makes me curious as to whatever you have on there).

I purposely chose a new name for here to have a clean break from SB. There's enough folks though that know who I was back there though that they conflate both, though I prefer it not be public knowledge.

 

[Zyobot]

I purposely chose a new name for here to have a clean break from SB. There's enough folks though that know who I was back there though that they conflate both, though I prefer it not be public knowledge.

Understandable.

Anyway:

 

[Bear Ribs]

I can't even begin to figure out how a person can have this combination of labels and tags.

 

[Zyobot]

I can't even begin to figure out how a person can have this combination of labels and tags.

Not sure how you can be both an American Patriot and a Marxist-Leninist simultaneously, considering how communism is antithetical to everything the US stands for...

 

[Typhonis]

Maybe he is a citizen of Airstrip One and a member of INGSOC?

 

[Zyobot]

Maybe he is a citizen of Airstrip One and a member of INGSOC?

Now, if only he and his comrades actually lived there, so that we didn’t have to deal with them anymore!

 

[Duke Nukem]

 

[DarthOne]

Now I’m imaging a FBI raid turning into Hitchcock’s The Birds…

 

[Duke Nukem]

 

[DarthOne]

 

[DarthOne]

 

[Cherico]

 

[Zachowon]

Huh...
Wierd, what happend in 2014 that maybe stopped them from donating?

 

[bintananth]

...and stop trying to fight gay marriage.

This alone would do wonders for the Republicans chances. The issue has been settled and most people don't care who someone marries as long as both people who say "I do" are consenting adults who aren't already married to someone else.

 

[Simonbob]

This alone would do wonders for the Republicans chances. The issue has been settled and most people don't care who someone marries as long as both people who say "I do" are consenting adults who aren't already married to someone else.

I'm not sure about that. Economics is likely to be much bigger in many minds, amongst other matters.


I'm not saying it's not a vote winner/loser, I'm saying there's other things that many people might care about more.


Huh. Now I'm wondering, when did anybody on the Republican side even mention it? Are they simply ignoring it now, and only people holding a grudge are keeping it alive?

Did the Republicans give up on that issue, only to find people like you are intent on punishing them anyway?

 

[Zyobot]

Your image isn't showing up on my end. Instead, I'm getting that black rectangle with white text warning that it was "probably deleted" or something.