It just occurred to me that the single most important zenophobic event in the modern history of the country is missing from that long time line detailing key events in the history of U.S. zenophobia, namely, November 8th, 2016, Americans elect White Nationalist Donald J.Trump as their President.
No------the Zenith of Zenophobia has always come from Democrats.From their love of slavery and hatred of Blacks to Franklin Roosevelt, who turned the St Louis away full of Jews when they were trying to get out of Germany. Most ended up murdered by The Nazis------also he interred the Japanese in camps inside the US. Very big on discrimination against people different to them --these Democrats.
Ah, see, I was going to try to have an honest discussion with you on this, but your TDS was triggered, and there went your impartiality.
Exactly! The "Yellow Dog Democrats" of the Southern States. Once they got elected to Congress they voted with Republicans on important human rights issues. That's why tallies of Democrats and Republicans in Congress, prior to integration and for quite a few years after that too, are misleading. Congress' democrat tally included a lot of "Yellow Dog democrats" who. more often then not, voted with the Republicans on important legislation. These yellow dog democrats have been appropriately described as elephants dressed in donkey suits. They were, for all intents and purposes Republicans. After integration it became more difficult for them to maintain the charade and today they actually run as Republicans. As a side note, during the time of the yellow dog democrats, because Lincoln freed the slaves, black folks in the South, when they were allowed to vote, voted almost exclusively for republicans despite the republicans, nationally, not having the black man's best interests at heart. Little additional done , however, by this odd twist in politics, because at that time few republicans had any chance of being elected in the Dixie. There were simply not enough black folks allowed to vote for that to happen. A fine example of the "yellow dog" phenomenon is North Carolinian Senator Jesse Helms. Helms was a Democrat from 1942 to 1970. After that, he shed his donkey suit get-up and ran as a Republican, a party where his vile obstructionist behavior was a natural fit. Another fine example, among the many, is Mississippi's former Representative, Gene Taylor. Taylor always ran as a "Democrat," and as a "Democrat" he achieved the seemingly impossible: he had a nearly perfect republican voting record on all substantive legislation! The last time Taylor ran, he persisted in running as a democrat, thinking wrongly that surely Mississippi was not so far advanced as the other southern states. So, as it were, there were two republicans running against each other that year, one in a donkey suit (Taylor), and the other dressed as an elephant. The elephant in the elephant suit won!