Posting a DU 3 comment here, in hopes this group will remain.

[dixiegrrrrl]

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. say Hey

[txwhitedove]

2. Hi. Great idea.

[southernyankeebelle]

3. Hi Ya'll, What's Up Folks?

It's great being here in the minority land of the south. Who knew when President Johnson passed the voting rights act that really allow minorities to vote made many southern democrats switch party. Pretty sad huh?

[rampart]

5. lbj thought that he had lost the south for a generation

i was a child then and now have great grandchildren. how many more generations?

nixon also recognized the opportunity for a "southern strategy" that has endured for decades.

nevertheless, we are on the correct side of history, and the segregationists will be forever wrong.

[southernyankeebelle]

6. rampart you are so right. We all have to sleep at night.

[The Philosopher]

4. Good deal

I hope it stays, too.

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. It will stay if we all come over and make it a working group on the new DU.

Hope to see you all here soon!

[Phentex]

7. I didn't know this existed...

I would probably post here.

[WoodyM90]

9. Back when Strom Thurmond

won his first Senate election there was no Republican Party in South Carolina. They never offered candidates for election.
I like to think that when LBJ extended Civil Rights and Voting Rights to all the citizens, the bigots left the Democratic Party and became the Republican Party.
Something of a bit of trivia, Thurmond actually won his first run of the US Senate as a write in candidate.

[era veteran]

10. In '64 both Kentucky's liberal Senators voted for The Civil Rights Act

and for food stamps. They were liberal Republican Senators. Don't hear that anymore.
John Sherman Cooper (R)
Thruston B. Morton (R)
Now we have given the country Rand & Mitchie.

[TxVietVet]

11. Good.

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. To keep the group going, we need folks to contribute to it!