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Originally posted by Not Bob
That's because your great grandfather was old enough to think of the Democratic Party as the party of Rum, Romanism, and the Rebellion.

Blacks voted (in those places were they were allowed to vote) for the GOP ("thanks for freeing us, Mr. Lincoln!") by a vast majority until the Depression, when they slowly began voting for Democrats. Some historians say that the tipping point for the black middle class wasn't even until 1960, when JFK called Corretta Scott King when MLK Jr. was in jail. MLK Sr. said that, until that phone call, he never would have voted for a Catholic Democrat to be president.

Wilson was a racist, as were most white Americans of the time, but he went out of his way to publicize it. He expressed outrage that TR invited black leaders to the White House, and praised the pro-Klan movie "Birth of a Nation" as a great work of history.

Ouch. So my GG was right. Wilson was a jerk. Another hero exposed. Birth of a Nation - good history? For the love of God.