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In reply to the discussion: Drive your right wing friends crazy with THIS actual Republican poster! [View all]jumptheshadow
(3,269 posts)27. My Republican grandfather named the first woman and black ADAs...
...in my hometown in the 1930s. The woman went to Congress, where she championed women's rights.
It was a different party then. Most of my grandfather's children went on to become Democrats in the 70's and 80s.
By the way, when my grandfather died in his late 90s, we received a sympathy note written in a spindly old lady's hand from the Congresswoman.
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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