Demonic_ How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America - Ann Coulter [86]
According to Caro, the Western Democrats traded their votes on civil rights for a dam authorization on the Idaho-Oregon border.5 That’s how dear black civil rights were to liberals—they traded them away for a dam.
While Democrats are the party of the mob, Republicans are the party of calm order, willing to breach the peace only when it comes to great transgressions against humanity—slavery, abortion, and terrorism.
Republican president Abraham Lincoln fought a Civil War and sacrificed 600,000 American lives to preserve the union, rallying the union with the principle that all men are created equal. The Democrats favored allowing slavery in the territories, and the Whigs were pro-choice on slavery—rejecting extremist rhetoric on both sides. The Republican Party was founded for the express purpose of opposing slavery.
After the Civil War, it was Republicans who passed the Thirteenth Amendment, granting slaves their freedom; the Fourteenth Amendment, granting them citizenship; and Fifteenth Amendment, giving them the right to vote. It was Republicans who sent federal troops to the Democratic South to enforce the hard-won rights of the freed slaves.
Then, as now, the Democrats favored the hooligans. The Ku Klux Klan was originally formed as a terrorist group to attack Republicans who had come to the Democratic South after the Civil War to help enforce legal equality for freed slaves.
It was—again—Republicans who passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Reconstruction Act of 1867, both signed into law by Republican president Ulysses S. Grant. Under the “living Constitution,” the Supreme Court upheld fraudulent “separate but equal” accommodations for blacks in the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson.
Republicans kept introducing federal civil rights bills and Democrats kept blocking them—a bill to protect black voters in the South in 1890; antilynching bills in 1922, 1935, and 1938; and anti–poll tax bills in 1942, 1944, and 1946.
With a lock on the racist mob vote, Democratic politicians won elections and promptly resegregated the entire South with Jim Crow laws. In 1913, Progressive Democrat president Woodrow Wilson even instituted segregation in Washington, D.C., bringing Jim Crow to the federal workforce. Wilson summarily dismissed black officials from their federal jobs in the South and in D.C. “Segregation is not a humiliation,” Wilson explained to a black delegation that came to the White House to complain, “but a benefit, and ought to be so regarded by you gentlemen.” During Wilson’s first term, Booker T. Washington went to Washington, D.C., and reported, “I have never seen the colored people so discouraged and bitter as they are at the present time.”6
President Wilson’s racist policies were fully supported by Democrats in Congress, and angrily denounced by Republicans.
Much as elected Democrats promote deranged documentarian Michael Moore today, Wilson hailed the virulently racist, pro-KKK movie Birth of a Nation as “writing history with lightning,” saying his only regret was that “it is all so terribly true.” Wilson even held a special showing of Birth of a Nation at the White House for cabinet members and members of Congress. (By contrast, President Reagan showed Dr. Bernard Nathanson’s anti-abortion documentary, Silent Scream, in his White House.)
A friend of Wilson said that with him running the country, “Negroes should expect to be treated as a servile race.”7 There’s your post-racial Democratic Party.
A crucial part of the Democrats’ victim folklore is that they have been losing the South to Republicans over the past half century because the Democrats stood on principle to oppose race discrimination, while the Republican Party pandered to racists in the South—a region of the country