The South had 'Dixie-crats' who were KKK Nazis, Democrats who were openly racist
First Thread: Before Trump
So my Ph D treaties on Twitter, about how Trump split up the GOP. We start with history of course. And we go to the political era before Trump. To the origins.
No. Not Sarah Palin.
No. Not Newt Gingrich. The origins:
George Wallace, the last racist

The South had 'Dixie-crats' who were KKK Nazis, Democrats who were openly racist
Democrats threw the racists out of their party and embraced the minorities, with a passion. Today it seems impossible to imagine DEMs as racists
When George Wallace's runs ended, the racists had no party to call their own. They infiltrated the Republican party who tolerated them. THAT WAS A MISTAKE
This was George Wallace's voter base. Since Wallace, no politician DARED to appeal to the racists, until Trump
I do not mean all Southern Whites are racists
I do not mean all white Christians are racists
I do not mean all land-owners are racists.
BUT racists tend to be most of those things. They are sick slice of the population. GOP tolerated them
When RACISTS heard Trump question Obama's nationality (= Kenyan, the birtherism) they found their maga god
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