Monday, February 28, 2005
Scratch A Republican, Find A Racist, Part Five
I found this in the comments section for a DailyKos diary on Smedley Butler:
Steven (4.00 / 4) I haven't been able to get my hands on a copy of the book yet, but I'm a big Alt-Hist geek so it's only a matter of time. I've been told by folks on one of the online forums that DC Stephenson as the VP to Lindbergh. We had a big blow up a few years back here in Indiana about having the painting of Gov.Ed Jackson up in the Statehouse gallery featuring all the ex govs. Eventually they had to take down the painting. Many people have forgotten, but in the 1920's the Klan rose again, and they controlled the state government of many states, well out of the South. Indiana, Colorado, Oregon all had governments throughouhly infiltrated by the Klan. In Indiana, the Klan was particularly taliban-like, and without the being discredited by their leaders rape and murder of Madge Oberholtzer (A movement predicated upon protecting the virtue of white women, suffers whe it's leader rapes and kills one.), it's disturbing to think what might have come to pass. The Republican party has tried to pretend that past Klan activity was solely something done by Southern Democrats, yet outside the south the Klan was largely Republican. In Indiana the Klan had signed loyatly oaths from many, many politicians. While I was googling around I also came across some stuff about a group called the Black Legion that comitted attacked "Socialists and Communists", and had a political wing, the Wolverine Republican Club: The Legion targeted blacks, Jews and Catholics with a message of hate but also considered welfare workers and recipients as well as union organizers of all races, colors and creeds to be an enemy. by ManfromMiddletown on Sun Feb 27th, 2005 at 12:08:45 PSTI'd always suspected that the Republicans had stopped being The Party Of Lincoln well before the "Southern Strategy" was officially launched. Nice to have some proof of that.
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