Calvin Coolidge, champion of African Americans

[Mr. Smith]

For a minute I was worried this said "Calvin Coolidge, champion of the poor."

Yes, Coolidge attempted to stop lynchings. The GOP had a vastly better civil rights record than the Democrats until about 1948. And yet, Republican Presidents after Hayes generally tolerated the horrid 1876 compromise and took few actions to oppose Jim Crow.

Tell that to members of "radical labor unions."

And before someone blurts out "but muh Teddy Roosevelt!" Please read some Debs and find out how much of a snake that man really was.

And immigrants...especially the Irish Catholic ones, Republicans were nothing but abominable towards them...especially the all-hallowed Teddy Roosevelt.

Can't forget that.

@Rocky: They've been consistently xenophobic perhaps, that's for sure.

[Mr. Smith]

For a minute I was worried this said "Calvin Coolidge, champion of the poor."

Yes, Coolidge attempted to stop lynchings. The GOP had a vastly better civil rights record than the Democrats until about 1948. And yet, Republican Presidents after Hayes generally tolerated the horrid 1876 compromise and took few actions to oppose Jim Crow.

Tell that to members of "radical labor unions."

And before someone blurts out "but muh Teddy Roosevelt!" Please read some Debs and find out how much of a snake that man really was.

And immigrants...especially the Irish Catholic ones, Republicans were nothing but abominable towards them...especially the all-hallowed Teddy Roosevelt.

Did you ever stop and think that's because they usually voted Democrat?

Notice how that changed when Catholics started switching to the Republicans post-Wilson.

So you assume these Irish Catholics voted Democrat just 'cuz without asking why they voted that way?

Also, Wilson pissed off a lot of that vote, which went straight back to Smith in 1928.