joepro
Well-Known Member
What does it mean to be a democrate?
Like everything eles we look into it's history.
How far back shell we go?
Let's start in 1868.(since I'm reading about it)
1868-The democratic stronghold of the klan violence worked to suppress black voting. over 2,000 persons were killed, wounded and otherwise injured in louisiana within a few weeks prior to the Presidential election of November 1868. Although st. landry parish had a registered Republican majority of 1,071, after the murders, no Republicans voted in the fall elections. White Democrats cast the full vote of the parish for Grant's opponent. The KKK killed and wounded more than 200 black Republicans, hunting and chasing them through the woods. Thirteen captives were taken from jail and shot; a half-buried pile of 25 bodies was found in the woods. The KKK made people vote Democratic and gave them certificates of the fact. In the April 1868 georgia gubernatorial election,columbia county cast 1,222 votes for Republican rufus bullocks By thenovember presidential election, however, Klan intimidation led to suppression of the Republican vote and only one person voted for ulysses s. grant.
Klansmen killed more than 150 African Americans in a county inflorida, and hundreds more in other counties. Freedmen's Bureau records provided a detailed recounting of beatings and murders of freedmen and their white allies by Klansmen.
skip ahead to 1924
Klan delegates played a significant role at the path-setting 1924 DNC in NY 1924, often called the "klanbake convention". The convention initially pitted Klan-backed candidate william gibbs mcadoo William Gibbs against New York Governor al smith. In some states, such as Alabama, the KKK worked for political and social reform. The state's Klansmen were among the foremost advocates of better public schools, effective prohibition enforcement, expanded road construction, and other progressive political measures. In many ways these reforms benefited lower class white people. By 1925, the Klan was a political force in the state, as leaders like j thomas heflin, david graves and huge black. J. thomas and Hugo black manipulated the KKK membership against the power of Black Belt planters who had long dominated the state
This post will take forever. to shortin it up.......
1) Democratic Ku Klux Klan members march down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. in 1928.
2)James K. Polk, Mexican American War.
3)Jefferson Davis, civil war. Well, he's hardly a US president, being only president of the confederacy.a conservative southern Democrat.back when the democrats were all about states rights.
4)Woodrow Wilson, ww1
5)Franklin D. Roosevelt, ww2
6)Harry S. Truman, Korean War.
7)John F. Kennedy: Viet Nam
Lyndon B. Johnson: Escalation in Viet Nam
9)1968 DNC, Chicago IL.100,000 hippies calling the democrates nazis and aint american.
10)Bill Clinton: Attacked Yugoslavia without a UN Security Council resolution, Invaded Haiti to restore the democratically elected president, invaded Somalia and cut and ran when it turned to chaos. Bombed al Quaeda bases in Afghanistan with cruise missiles in an attempt to kill bin Laden. Bombed Bahgdad.
Democrats: Grandfathered the KKK into politics.
Democrats: Fought for years against civil rights.
Total Democratic Presidents who Took Us to War? : 8-9
Will it be 9-10 democratic presidents who take us to war?
Does history repeat itself?
...even Joe Biden believes so.
Like everything eles we look into it's history.
How far back shell we go?
Let's start in 1868.(since I'm reading about it)
1868-The democratic stronghold of the klan violence worked to suppress black voting. over 2,000 persons were killed, wounded and otherwise injured in louisiana within a few weeks prior to the Presidential election of November 1868. Although st. landry parish had a registered Republican majority of 1,071, after the murders, no Republicans voted in the fall elections. White Democrats cast the full vote of the parish for Grant's opponent. The KKK killed and wounded more than 200 black Republicans, hunting and chasing them through the woods. Thirteen captives were taken from jail and shot; a half-buried pile of 25 bodies was found in the woods. The KKK made people vote Democratic and gave them certificates of the fact. In the April 1868 georgia gubernatorial election,columbia county cast 1,222 votes for Republican rufus bullocks By thenovember presidential election, however, Klan intimidation led to suppression of the Republican vote and only one person voted for ulysses s. grant.
Klansmen killed more than 150 African Americans in a county inflorida, and hundreds more in other counties. Freedmen's Bureau records provided a detailed recounting of beatings and murders of freedmen and their white allies by Klansmen.
skip ahead to 1924
Klan delegates played a significant role at the path-setting 1924 DNC in NY 1924, often called the "klanbake convention". The convention initially pitted Klan-backed candidate william gibbs mcadoo William Gibbs against New York Governor al smith. In some states, such as Alabama, the KKK worked for political and social reform. The state's Klansmen were among the foremost advocates of better public schools, effective prohibition enforcement, expanded road construction, and other progressive political measures. In many ways these reforms benefited lower class white people. By 1925, the Klan was a political force in the state, as leaders like j thomas heflin, david graves and huge black. J. thomas and Hugo black manipulated the KKK membership against the power of Black Belt planters who had long dominated the state
This post will take forever. to shortin it up.......
1) Democratic Ku Klux Klan members march down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. in 1928.
2)James K. Polk, Mexican American War.
3)Jefferson Davis, civil war. Well, he's hardly a US president, being only president of the confederacy.a conservative southern Democrat.back when the democrats were all about states rights.
4)Woodrow Wilson, ww1
5)Franklin D. Roosevelt, ww2
6)Harry S. Truman, Korean War.
7)John F. Kennedy: Viet Nam
Lyndon B. Johnson: Escalation in Viet Nam9)1968 DNC, Chicago IL.100,000 hippies calling the democrates nazis and aint american.
10)Bill Clinton: Attacked Yugoslavia without a UN Security Council resolution, Invaded Haiti to restore the democratically elected president, invaded Somalia and cut and ran when it turned to chaos. Bombed al Quaeda bases in Afghanistan with cruise missiles in an attempt to kill bin Laden. Bombed Bahgdad.
Democrats: Grandfathered the KKK into politics.
Democrats: Fought for years against civil rights.
Total Democratic Presidents who Took Us to War? : 8-9
Will it be 9-10 democratic presidents who take us to war?
Does history repeat itself?
...even Joe Biden believes so.
, and it's not what I think 
, it's what you think it stands for 
