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D.C. Stephenson, KKK and The Republicans
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And some of you want to say that only the Democrats were in the KKK??? YEAH RIGHT!!!! :-/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._C._Stephenson

Read who this woman was. What a horrible experience she had.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madge_Oberholtzer
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They weren't Republicans.
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"Stephenson was born in Houston, Texas, and moved as a child with his family to Maysville, Oklahoma. After some public schooling, he started work as a printer's apprentice and was active in the Socialist Party."

"In 1920 at the age of 29, he moved to Evansville, Indiana, where he worked for a retail coal company. He joined the Democratic Party and in 1922, ran unsuccessfully for a Democratic Congressional nomination.[2] He was said to have already "married and abandoned two wives" before settling in Evansville.[1]"

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Nov 17 2013, 08:32 PM
They weren't Republicans.
You better keep on reading.....
D.C. Stephenson was a republican right after he left the Democrat party. And some of the politicians that took bribes from him were republicans.
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Nov 17 2013, 08:41 PM
"Stephenson was born in Houston, Texas, and moved as a child with his family to Maysville, Oklahoma. After some public schooling, he started work as a printer's apprentice and was active in the Socialist Party."

"In 1920 at the age of 29, he moved to Evansville, Indiana, where he worked for a retail coal company. He joined the Democratic Party and in 1922, ran unsuccessfully for a Democratic Congressional nomination.[2] He was said to have already "married and abandoned two wives" before settling in Evansville.[1]"

Encouraged by his success, in September 1923, Stephenson severed his ties with the existing national organization of the KKK, and formed a rival KKK made up of the chapters he led. That year Stephenson changed his affiliation from the Democratic to the Republican Party, which predominated in Indiana and much of the Midwest. He notably supported Republican Edward L. Jackson, a Klan member, when he ran (successfully) for governor in 1924. Stephenson was noted for having claimed, "I am the law in Indiana."[5]
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Both Stephenson and Edward Jackson did join the Republican party but they are not products of the Republican party. The wiki I read on Edward Jackson indicates that the Republicans were reluctant to grant association because of his ties to the Klan, and by doing so he had to embrace their stance on "full civil and religious liberty for Jews, Catholics, and blacks."
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Nov 17 2013, 08:47 PM
Both Stephenson and Edward Jackson did join the Republican party but they are not products of the Republican party. The wiki I read on Edward Jackson indicates that the Republicans were reluctant to grant association because of his ties to the Klan, and by doing so he had to embrace their stance on "full civil and religious liberty for Jews, Catholics, and blacks."
I don't give a shit, they were republicans. And one could say that THEY STARTED THE RACIST TREND, that is now associated with the republican party.
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Nov 17 2013, 08:49 PM
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Nov 17 2013, 08:47 PM
Both Stephenson and Edward Jackson did join the Republican party but they are not products of the Republican party. The wiki I read on Edward Jackson indicates that the Republicans were reluctant to grant association because of his ties to the Klan, and by doing so he had to embrace their stance on "full civil and religious liberty for Jews, Catholics, and blacks."
I don't give a shit, they were republicans. And one could say that THEY STARTED THE RACIST TREND, that is now associated with the republican party.
at least give a shit that you aren't making sense?

A few batshit former Democrats, much like the few Dixiecrats after and during the civil rights movement, who became Republicans do not diminish the Republican's historical record of being the leaders of equality. Republicans are deemed racist because they believe we are all equal under the law and therefore do not discuss race issues. Most are definitely insensitive to race issues but not racist.
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Nov 17 2013, 08:57 PM
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Nov 17 2013, 08:49 PM
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Nov 17 2013, 08:47 PM
Both Stephenson and Edward Jackson did join the Republican party but they are not products of the Republican party. The wiki I read on Edward Jackson indicates that the Republicans were reluctant to grant association because of his ties to the Klan, and by doing so he had to embrace their stance on "full civil and religious liberty for Jews, Catholics, and blacks."
I don't give a shit, they were republicans. And one could say that THEY STARTED THE RACIST TREND, that is now associated with the republican party.
at least give a shit that you aren't making sense?

A few batshit former Democrats, much like the few Dixiecrats after and during the civil rights movement, who became Republicans do not diminish the Republican's historical record of being the leaders of equality. Republicans are deemed racist because they believe we are all equal under the law and therefore do not discuss race issues. Most are definitely insensitive to race issues but not racist.
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Most are definitely insensitive to race issues but not racist.

So what's the damn difference? The republican politicians of today pander to the very same people who come from generations of racist democrats and who NOW call themselves republicans. .

You want to hang on to the positive achievments of the republicans party of the past, but you don't want to admit that the republicans have taken on the racist tendancies of the Democrat party of the past.
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Whozthatgurl
Nov 17 2013, 09:20 PM
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Nov 17 2013, 08:57 PM
Whozthatgurl
Nov 17 2013, 08:49 PM
Archaicwisdom
Nov 17 2013, 08:47 PM
Both Stephenson and Edward Jackson did join the Republican party but they are not products of the Republican party. The wiki I read on Edward Jackson indicates that the Republicans were reluctant to grant association because of his ties to the Klan, and by doing so he had to embrace their stance on "full civil and religious liberty for Jews, Catholics, and blacks."
I don't give a shit, they were republicans. And one could say that THEY STARTED THE RACIST TREND, that is now associated with the republican party.
at least give a shit that you aren't making sense?

A few batshit former Democrats, much like the few Dixiecrats after and during the civil rights movement, who became Republicans do not diminish the Republican's historical record of being the leaders of equality. Republicans are deemed racist because they believe we are all equal under the law and therefore do not discuss race issues. Most are definitely insensitive to race issues but not racist.
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Most are definitely insensitive to race issues but not racist.

So what's the damn difference? The republican politicians of today pander to the very same people who come from generations of racist democrats and who NOW call themselves republicans. .

You want to hang on to the positive achievments of the republicans party of the past, but you don't want to admit that the republicans have taken on the racist tendancies of the Democrat party of the past.
prove it...in policy.
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