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Originally Posted by FireGilbert
Thanks. I was thinking it was a fairly recent development that had something to do with colour TV.
Also, up until Nixon, I guess the GOP was the party of the left. Just compare the ultra Progressive Teddy Roosevelt was the crazy religious bigot in Woodrow Wilson.
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As far as I can remember back to Adlai Stevenson the Democrats have been supported by the Unions, blacks and the liberal north with an unholy alliance with the southern Dixiecrats because they still hated Lincoln's party. As a youngster it was always baffling to me that a man like George Wallace was a Democrat. The GOP have always been associated with the right wing and a hawkish foreign policy. When Nixon went after the south, it was a natural merging.