The Democratic Party’s Evolving Racism Toward Blacks : “Rather I should die a thousand times … than see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.” – Robert Byrd, Democrat Senator (1959 through 2010) and founder of the Sophia, West Virginia chapter of the Ku Klux Klan (150 members) “I did not lie awake at night worrying about the problems of Negroes.” – Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, 1961 “These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness” – Lyndon B. Johnson (1963) “I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.” – Lyndon B. Johnson confiding in two governors why the passage of his civil rights and welfare legislation was important (1963)

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