How would you have voted?: United States Presidential Elections

[Rockefeller GOP]

1904 - Roosevelt (R)
1908 - Taft (R)
1912 - Taft (R)
1916 - Hughes (R)
1920 - Harding (R)
1924 - Coolidge (R)
1928 - Hoover (R)
1932 - Hoover (R)
1936 - Landon (R)
1940 - Willkie (R)
1944 - Dewey (R)
1948 - Dewey (R)
1952 - Eisenhower (R)
1956 - Eisenhower (R)
1960 - Nixon (R)
1964 - Would not have voted; would have supported Rockefeller
1968 - Nixon (R); would have preferred Rockefeller
1972 - Nixon (R)
1976 - Ford (R)
1980 - Reagan (R)
1984 - Reagan (R)
1988 - Bush (R)
1992 - Bush (R)
1996 - Dole (R) unenthusiasticly
2000 - Bush (R)
2004 - Bush (R)
2008 - McCain (R)
2012 - Romney (R)
2016 - Will primary for Christie

[Rockefeller GOP]

Probably vote straight GOP since 1856.

You do realize that the GOP and the Democrats have completely switched on most issues since this time?

That's a cute myth liberals like to tell themselves so that they can forget that Democrats championed racism for 130 years.

[Rockefeller GOP]

Probably vote straight GOP since 1856.

You do realize that the GOP and the Democrats have completely switched on most issues since this time?

That's a cute myth liberals like to tell themselves so that they can forget that Democrats championed racism for 130 years.

Yes, and the GOP's tactics in the North didn't at all involve outright racism against "the lowly" races of Europe combined with a self-righteous Protestant crusade against "the Unholy Church."  And the Northern Republican Parties didn't at all embrace the Ku Klux Klan when they adopted bleedingheart anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic rhetoric and causes.
ANd this is even before we get into the whole "Southern Strategy" bit.

Of course, when it's coming from the enlightened, none dare call it racism or hypocrisy!

EDIT: Of course this isn't to say that the Democrats weren't campaigning off of racism, but let us not act like it was a one sided affair or that Republican bigotry was at all justified.  It was not, no matter how anti-black many paddies were or how many Catholics obeyed political machines.  Point is this is a pathetic debating point and you all need to look at the parties through more than cheap rosy tinted colored glasses through the lens of a few issues.

Oh, I completely agree!  Just saying the original post I quoted is totally off.

[Rockefeller GOP]

Probably vote straight GOP since 1856.

You do realize that the GOP and the Democrats have completely switched on most issues since this time?

That's a cute myth liberals like to tell themselves so that they can forget that Democrats championed racism for 130 years.

So is the Republican party still the party of activist government, labor rights, conservation, and business regulation?

Any party who's the majority party in the Union is going to seem activist.  Is that really a liberal thing?  Are you guys ready to embrace Bush 43 or just the big government Presidents you like?

Addressing both your first a second point, an activist government back then was seen as pro-business, implementing a protective tariff.  When that policy no longer benefited big business ('30s and on), the GOP dropped it like a rock.

You got me on conservation, and I'm really ashamed that we've strayed from those roots.

Your last assertion is just ridiculous.

[Rockefeller GOP]

1852:Franklin Pierce
1856:James Buchanan
1860:John C. Breckinridge

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1948:Strom Thurmond

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1968:George C. Wallace

So are you actually a racist?

No, I have plenty of black friends. I do believe in state's rights though. 

But you understand that the "right" that Thurmond and Wallace were fighting for was the right of the state to be racist, right?

Maybe he's doing it without hindsight?  Given that he's from the South.