The Dixiecrat Legacy Lives

I've long argued that Republicans are far to often smeared as the racist party when in fact through history, it was the Democrats starting with Thomas Jefferson who were anti-black (and neo-Libs carry on that tradition). Bruce Bartlett lays out all out using their own words and to be honest. it's devastating:

"Republicanism means Negro equality, while the Democratic Party means that the white man is supreme. That is why we Southerners are all Democrats."
--Sen. Ben Tillman (D., S.C.), 1906Chairman, Committee on Naval Affairs, 1913-19

"These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be Reconstruction all over again."
--Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D., Texas), 1957

"I did not lie awake at night worrying about the problems of Negroes."
--Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, 1961Kennedy later authorized wiretapping the phones and bugging the hotel rooms of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Now, with a Black man making a serious run at the nomination for President, it appears that old Dixiecrat attitude is starting to show its ugly face again.