Eugeeener:   To be sure, the Democratic Party was the party of Jim Crow in the post-Reconstruction South and many Democratic leaders were supportive of segregation and discrimination based on race during the first half of the 20th century.  That's part of history....it's hardly a secret.  However, the party changed....the Civil Rights Act, signed by LBJ, brought an exodus of racists from the Democratic Party to the American Independent Party and, thanks to active GOP recruitment, to the Republican Party, where most of them remain today.  That's contemporary history...it shouldn't be ignored either.  
On my Dad's side, my great-great-grandfather was a slave-owner in South Carolina.  I feel no guilt for that....I didn't own slaves.  I'll feel guilty for MY "sins", not those of my "fathers."  The same for the (D)s and (R)s.  Let's look at today and the positions and actions of our political leaders.  Don't let folks like Mr. Anson deflect the conversation....Let's focus on today. GCrum

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