WaPo: The GOP is no party for blacks, Latinos, and gays

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Count me down as member of the party of Dr. Martin Luther King, Fredrick Douglass, and Booker T. Washington, not that of Jim Crow, secession, and the South.

Obama is white you see.

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It was about convincing Southern moderates who supported civil rights to fight against the segregationist Democrats by voting Republican.  

Southern pro-civil rights moderates who joined the GOP because of the Southern Strategy:

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I don't think Trent Lott was a fan of segregation necessarily, despite his statements at Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday party (which I think were mostly taken out of context.) 

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Yeah, certainly not a fan of segregation.

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I'm really tired with your crap. You won't find a single person here who'd deny civil rights origins of the GOP and the Democrat's evil past regarding this issue.

Knowing history is good, but not when you're using it as an excuse to ignore the present reality which may not be pleaseant for you.

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I'm really tired with your crap. You won't find a single person here who'd deny civil rights origins of the GOP and the Democrat's evil past regarding this issue.

Knowing history is good, but not when you're using it as an excuse to ignore the present reality which may not be pleaseant for you.

It's not a present reality.  And nobody here may deny this history, but plenty of high-profile Democrats have and they just pretend that they were the heroes of civil rights and that all the horrible things that happened to blacks throughout our history were caused by Republicans.

I'd appreciate some examples.