Thanks, gocomics.org
Cripes! I remember the transition. Democrats relied on the Solid South…racism, Jim Crow laws and all, to stay in power for decades. Then, as a result of pressure from the growing civil rights movement, they relented. They figured they better join the nation changing in a progressive direction.
As a result, the Republican Party took over state government in all the most racist states. That’s what “Republican tradition” means in most of the South. It goes back to the success of freedom fighters at the federal level…and your friendly neighborhood bigots simply changing parties.
Georgia Republicans made two big mistakes when they attacked voting rights – they forgot a lesson from the past and are setting themselves up for defeat in the future. https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/28/politics/voting-rights-georgia-souls-polls-blake/index.html
How former President Donald Trump won a larger share of the Black vote in 2020 than he did in 2016. https://www.vox.com/2020/11/4/21537966/trump-black-voters-exit-polls
A top Georgia Republican said Wednesday that Rudy Giuliani’s false claims of election fraud — which were presented before state lawmakers — created momentum for a package of voting rights restrictions that recently became state law.
“This is really the fallout from the 10 weeks of misinformation that flew in from former President Donald Trump,” Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan said on CNN’s “New Day.” “I went back over the weekend to really look at where this really started to gain momentum in the legislature, and it was when Rudy Giuliani showed up in a couple of committee rooms and spent hours spreading misinformation and sowing doubt across, you know, hours of testimony.” https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/07/politics/geoff-duncan-voter-fraud-cnntv/index.html