You can thank Jesse Helms and other unreconstructed Southern conservatives/ Dixiecrats like Strom Thurmond who left the Democratic Party for the Republican Party.

Thank him for what

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I was being facetious in my response to your link. But when the Dixiecrats/separatist switched to the Republican party, so did black folks switch to the Democratic party.

Welcome to Fantasy Land. You just compared the roots of the Democratic party, founded in the KKK, with the current Republican party...wow.

I dont quite understand what you are saying? Yes, the Republican party was the party of Lincoln (horray for emancipation!), the Democratic party at that time, expecially in the deep south, were staunch separatist and were racially polarizing. Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond who were no fans of the Civil Rights Movement did, in fact, move their affiliation to the Republican party and away from the changing platform of the Democratic party.

You see, in life, their are no permanent friends...no permanent ememies. Only permanent interest.

I don't think today's Republican party is a reflection of the genesis of the Democratic party.

Tell me how I compared the two?

see your own post, #13.

And that is a fact. Before the Voting Rights Act of 1965, many blacks viewed themselves as Republican. However, when Republican members of Congress objected to renew the Act, black members left the party. LBJ drafted the legislation that gave blacks the unabridged right to vote once and for all, and itlater became the 14th and 15th amendments. When Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond switched to the Republican party, it signaled another, more-broader political shift.

So...why did you ask the question in post 15 again?