Biden: Romney will "put ya'll back in chains"

[Likely Voter]

this is a big f--king deal

[Likely Voter]

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Last I checked it was Republicans who voted in the Civil Rights act.

What exactly have Democrats ever done for African Americans?

Wait, Lyndon Johnson was a Republican?

Todays Dem and GOP parties are not the parties they were 45 years ago. The Dixie-crats who opposed the CRA moved to the GOP, that was the whole point of the "Southern Strategy." As for the Rockefeller Republicans who supported it, well they are what is called RINOs today.

[Likely Voter]

It's Occam's razor. Before civil rights era southern whites were overwhelmingly Democratic, Now they are overwhelmingly GOP.

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Today's GOP is nothing like the GOP of the 1950s and early 60s. Same is true of the Dems. You simply can't wrap yourself in the flag of the former GOP.

that being said, cleary what Biden says was racist dog-whistle. As was the Romney reply full of references of "Angry" and "hate" (as in the proverbial 'angry black man'). Same is true of Romney's constant use of the term 'foreign' to describe Obama.

[Likely Voter]

are all republicans racists? Of course not. But are we seriously debating whether or not southern white racists trend GOP?