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Shouldn't it say because he was too conservative on racial issues since it was the '''liberal''' Democrats who were against civil rights?
 
Shouldn't it say because he was too conservative on racial issues since it was the '''liberal''' Democrats who were against civil rights?
 
:Truman desegrated the Armed Forces in 1947, so this one appears correct.  
 
:Truman desegrated the Armed Forces in 1947, so this one appears correct.  
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Oh. Because I thought that it was conservatives who were for desegregation and liberals who were for segregation. That's why I had a hard time understanding why it said Truman was too liberal on racial issues since the liberals were segregationists.
    
Doesn't this:
 
Doesn't this:
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play into the liberal narrative that the racist conservatives switched parties and Dixiecrats were conservatives when in fact they were racist southern liberals?
 
play into the liberal narrative that the racist conservatives switched parties and Dixiecrats were conservatives when in fact they were racist southern liberals?
 
:That's a misreading, but one this one needs some touching up. As is, it's a basic restatement of the [[fake news]] media, academia, and DNC false narrative of a Southern Strategy; Dixiecrat was basically a one-hit-wonder in 1948, when Democrats were divided 3 ways, Progressives, Dixiecrats, and Regular Democrats. What page is this on?
 
:That's a misreading, but one this one needs some touching up. As is, it's a basic restatement of the [[fake news]] media, academia, and DNC false narrative of a Southern Strategy; Dixiecrat was basically a one-hit-wonder in 1948, when Democrats were divided 3 ways, Progressives, Dixiecrats, and Regular Democrats. What page is this on?
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That's on the Dixiecrat page.
    
On the Reagan Democrats page, this feeds into the narrative that the racists jumped ships:
 
On the Reagan Democrats page, this feeds into the narrative that the racists jumped ships:

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