Tag Archives: Neo-Confederacy

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries: ‘You Better Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself’

Source:CSPAN U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (Democrat, New York) giving a short but very powerful speech in response to U.S. Representative Byron Donalds (Republican, New York) Source:The New Democrat “Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) on Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL): “It … Continue reading

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Frank DiStefano: ‘Teddy Roosevelt’s Bull Moose Campaign, Why Wilson Wasn’t Really a Progressive!’

Source:Frank DiStefano– talking about Theodore Roosevelt & Woodrow Wilson. “In this episode, we talk about Teddy Roosevelt’s 1912 “Bull Moose” Progressive Party campaign and the three-way presidential contest over progressivism. The 1912 election involved three candidates, Republican William Howard Taft, … Continue reading

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Connor Higgins: ‘George Wallace’s Life in 16 Minutes’

Source:Connor Higgins– Governor George C. Wallace (Democrat, Alabama) Source:The New Democrat “ADDENDUM – PLEASE READ: This video is very flawed. While I do stand by the factual accuracy of everything stated here, my presentation downplays George Wallace’s racism to a … Continue reading

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Firing Line With William F. Buckley: George C. Wallace: The Wallace Crusade (1968)

Source:Firing Line With William F. Buckley– interviewing Governor George C. Wallace (Independent, Alabama) in 1968. Source:The New Democrat “WFB had sharply criticized Mr. Wallace in print, both for his once-adamant attachment to segregation and for his New Deal statism, and … Continue reading

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Firing Line With William F. Buckley: Leander Perez- ‘The Wallace Crusade (1968)’

Source:The New Democrat “Episode 095, Recorded on April 15, 1968 Guest: Leander Perez.” From Firing Line With William F. Buckley I never heard of Leander Perez from Louisiana before I saw this video. But apparently he was both Governor of Louisiana … Continue reading

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National Review: John Fund: ‘Setting The Record Straight On Jim Crow’

Source:The New Democrat  What John Fund doesn’t seem to understand or perhaps is ignoring, which is possible because he is a bright guy is that the Southern Democrats who blocked the civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s are … Continue reading

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Jamelle Bouie: John Fund’s Distorted History of The Democratic Party

What right-wingers of today and John Fund of the Wall Street Journal and National Review is one of them, don’t seem to understand is that even though it is true that Congressional Republicans supported the civil rights laws more than … Continue reading

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Patrick J. Buchanan: ‘Richard Nixon’s Southern Strategy and the Big Liberal Lie’

Source:The New Democrat  I first saw Pat Buchanan’s column about Richard Nixon’s Southern Strategy over the fourth as I checked my email that day. And because of other things I’ve done the last few days it’s just now that I’m … Continue reading

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C-SPAN: Nadie Cohodas: Strom Thurmond Biography: The Politics of Southern Change (1993)

Source:The New Democrat  The best thing I can say about Senator Strom Thurmond, as someone who is not a fan, is that he was a reformed segregationist who reformed his views and rhetoric as the predominant views changed, even in … Continue reading

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Frantz Kebreau: Malcolm X: ‘Black Democrats Are ‘Traitors’

Source:Frantz Kebreau– talking about African-American Democrats. Source:The Daily Press “The second from the Malcolm X series. Although I do not agree with his early philosophy, he sets the record straight and reveals the Truth about the Democratic Party!! Correction Sen. … Continue reading

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