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In reply to the discussion: Drive your right wing friends crazy with THIS actual Republican poster! [View all]Cleita
(75,480 posts)4. I think you will find a huge part of the Republican Party of the fifties to be
to the left of today's Democratic Party. The Republican Party back then was the party of business yes, but the businesses they backed were the small businesses, mom and pop, main street if you will and American based corporations like General Motors. The Democrats were the party of labor, the people who worked for them, however, there didn't seem to be a huge difference in the policy goals of both parties. It was really union vs. company. I was in high school and college back then. I remember the political landscape and I would have been shocked if I could have looked into the future and seen what happened.
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Drive your right wing friends crazy with THIS actual Republican poster! [View all]
alp227
Dec 2012
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Democrats walked fine line because the southern states have always been anti-labor...
WCGreen
Dec 2012
#14
And Blacks weren't allowed to join the Union, Jim Crow Laws, and blacks had to ride on the back
Heather MC
Dec 2012
#34
Nah, he wants the other 1956 America where large swathes of the country had no rights. (nt)
Posteritatis
Dec 2012
#47
Someone needs to post this in Free Republic or whatever that dirtbag... er, uhm. teabag site is.
world wide wally
Dec 2012
#53