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Comments on: Good News https://whynow.dumka.us/2009/11/04/good-news-10/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:26:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2009/11/04/good-news-10/comment-page-1/#comment-49629 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:21:09 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=11986#comment-49629 In reply to John B..

John, I was talking about NY 23, in the Whig comment, and having been Republican ever since. Florida statewide was solidly in the Democratic camp until the 1980s, when the real shift to the GOP by the Dixiecrats was in full swing.

The Republican Party of New York was very progressive until approximately the same time period. The most conservative would be considered centrists, and even then it was on fiscal policy, not social policy.

]]> By: John B. https://whynow.dumka.us/2009/11/04/good-news-10/comment-page-1/#comment-49628 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:33:31 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=11986#comment-49628 Are you sure about the Whigs? I know there were, informally, “Northern Whigs” and “Southern Whigs” in antebellum America. I haven’t checked — emphasize that — but I would have thought Florida went for the Democrat, Stephen Douglas, in the 1860 election, or someone even worse, not Lincoln. To be sure, the Republican Party of Lincoln tried to appeal to Southerners, too, but at least at the national level it did not become the racist supporter of the KKK and like orgs until after the 1876 election was stolen from Tilden (and the wrong Florida electoral college delegation was recognized).

Although he had at one time been a Free Soiler, Hayes began the Republican Party’s long national slide toward damnation, only to have it briefly (and partially) rescued by Teddy Roosevelt. Southern Dems, of course, tried to out-racist the Republicans for much of the 20th century, even after 1965.

Indeed, there was a time — even in my lifetime — when a large part of the Republican Party — mostly in the Northeast and Far West — openly prided itself on being socially progressive. How long ago that seems, now!

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