"When History’s Losers Write the Story" [Confederate Statues]

Of course they were during the Democrat Jim Crow years and the Civil rights era, Democrats like Bull Connor, Orval Fabus, George Wallace. J. William Fulbright, Al Gore Sr. and Robert Byrd.
Then there's Al Gore’s reframing of the relevant history in the story of the party in microcosm.
The Democratic party’s history is pockmarked with racism and terror. The Democrats were the party of slavery, black codes, Jim Crow, and that miserable terrorist excrescence, the Ku Klux Klan. Republicans were the party of Lincoln, Reconstruction, anti-lynching laws, and the civil rights acts of 1875, 1957, 1960, and 1964.
Less well remembered are Woodrow Wilson’s segregation of the entire federal civil service; FDR’s appointment of Hugo Black a member of the KKK to the Supreme Court.
The Democrats have been sedulously rewriting history for decades. Their preferred version pretends that all the Democratic racists and segregationists left their party and became Republicans starting in the 1960s. How convenient. If it were true that the South began to turn Republican due to Lyndon Johnson’s passage of the Civil Rights Act, you would expect that the Deep South, the states most associated with racism, would have been the first to move. That’s not what happened. The first southern states to trend Republican were on the periphery: North Carolina, Virginia, Texas, Tennessee, and Florida. (George Wallace lost these voters in his 1968 bid.) The voters who first migrated to the Republican party were suburban, prosperous New South types.

 

The soul of man.

We, my friend, are simpatico.

 

I hope we all are on the Board.

 

And now we find the 3 time loser Hillary trying to re-write the election.

 

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Is it partisan to point out the facts? I never claimed that Wilson erected the statues. What I'm stating is that Wilson's actions condoned and encouraged the rise of the KKK, Jim Crow laws, and created federal segregation, in doing so allowed those partisan Democrats to raise funds and erect the statues, memorials, name buildings, bridges and towns after Confederate heroes.