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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 1192988" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>A tab OT but with the talk about Lincoln and the newly created republican party, both Lincoln and the republicans emerged from the ashes that was the old Whig Party. A worthy topic of research if one is willing. Also moving in the other direction towards our day, also research the late 19th and early 20th century "progressive" movement and see not only the "who" but where and how that factors into the legacy of the modern day GOP.</p><p></p><p>As to MLK and the GOP, in those days the south was solid democrat mostly as a backlash to the era of reconstruction at the hands of the then GOP. From top to bottom, the bedrock of the southern segregation political forces were democrat. The odds of being a democrat in those days of MLK and effecting political change with segregation was all but nil so voting GOP was likely to appear as an only option. One has to understand the Rockerfeller wing of the GOP to understand why MLK was a registered republican.</p><p></p><p>The 60's GOP as regarding civil rights is an interesting study when one mentions MLK voting GOP and then looking forward 50 years into today and how the GOP is viewed from the black perspective now. Timothy Thurber, Associate Professor of History, State University of NY at Oswego, offers a <a href="http://www.rockarch.org/publications/resrep/thurber.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff0000">short summary</span></a> that is an interesting read and may give clarity to MLK's actions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 1192988, member: 2189"] A tab OT but with the talk about Lincoln and the newly created republican party, both Lincoln and the republicans emerged from the ashes that was the old Whig Party. A worthy topic of research if one is willing. Also moving in the other direction towards our day, also research the late 19th and early 20th century "progressive" movement and see not only the "who" but where and how that factors into the legacy of the modern day GOP. As to MLK and the GOP, in those days the south was solid democrat mostly as a backlash to the era of reconstruction at the hands of the then GOP. From top to bottom, the bedrock of the southern segregation political forces were democrat. The odds of being a democrat in those days of MLK and effecting political change with segregation was all but nil so voting GOP was likely to appear as an only option. One has to understand the Rockerfeller wing of the GOP to understand why MLK was a registered republican. The 60's GOP as regarding civil rights is an interesting study when one mentions MLK voting GOP and then looking forward 50 years into today and how the GOP is viewed from the black perspective now. Timothy Thurber, Associate Professor of History, State University of NY at Oswego, offers a [URL="http://www.rockarch.org/publications/resrep/thurber.pdf"][COLOR=#ff0000]short summary[/COLOR][/URL] that is an interesting read and may give clarity to MLK's actions. [/QUOTE]
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