I think, for me, one of the first steps when the Republican Party began its glacial movement away from truly being the Party of Lincoln was the Hayes-Tilden deal in 1876 when the white Republicans betrayed blacks, especially in states that had joined in the rebellion in order to hold onto the Presidency.
Certainly an important moment, but it also overshadows the extent to which the Republican Party had moved on from Reconstruction before 1877 as well as those places throughout the South that continued to experience the benefits of Reconstruction up to the end of the century. Good to hear from you, Margaret and Happy Holidays.
I like your interview with Dr Galsworthy and I am also pleased to see the Army finally moving on the Confederate Monument in Arlington. As someone with a variety of professional interests in this subject I have grown less comfortable over the years honoring the Confederate States of America. Some degree of acceptance of the presence of the CSA in aspects of our history is unavoidable, as in recognizing the linage of certain Army units. But it is time to let go of a past that never was and should never have been memorialized into existence.
When I subscribed to Heather Cox Richardson's blog, "Letters from an American," back in 2019, I kept wondering why her name was familiar to me. It was some time later that I realized why: I had bought and read a book she had written in 2014—To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party. She confirmed historically many of the conclusions I had come to as one who grew up in the Deep South and lived through the jump of segregationists in the 1960s from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party following the "Southern strategy" of Richard Nixon. Although it's been almost 10 years since that book, it tells the story pretty well. Her follow-up book, How the South Won the Civil War, published by Oxford University Press in 2020, continues the part of the story in my lifetime—beginning with Barry Goldwater and "Movement Conservatives" who she described a century before as "Confederates." I do know one thing—I am not a "mudsill." Unfortunately, far too many of my peers have no idea that they are, at least in the minds of those who stir fear of the "other."
I think, for me, one of the first steps when the Republican Party began its glacial movement away from truly being the Party of Lincoln was the Hayes-Tilden deal in 1876 when the white Republicans betrayed blacks, especially in states that had joined in the rebellion in order to hold onto the Presidency.
Certainly an important moment, but it also overshadows the extent to which the Republican Party had moved on from Reconstruction before 1877 as well as those places throughout the South that continued to experience the benefits of Reconstruction up to the end of the century. Good to hear from you, Margaret and Happy Holidays.
I like your interview with Dr Galsworthy and I am also pleased to see the Army finally moving on the Confederate Monument in Arlington. As someone with a variety of professional interests in this subject I have grown less comfortable over the years honoring the Confederate States of America. Some degree of acceptance of the presence of the CSA in aspects of our history is unavoidable, as in recognizing the linage of certain Army units. But it is time to let go of a past that never was and should never have been memorialized into existence.
Thanks for taking the time to watch.
I’m sure he’s a Secret Service agent, but the gentleman beside the stairs looks like Rod Serling. Hmmm...
When I subscribed to Heather Cox Richardson's blog, "Letters from an American," back in 2019, I kept wondering why her name was familiar to me. It was some time later that I realized why: I had bought and read a book she had written in 2014—To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party. She confirmed historically many of the conclusions I had come to as one who grew up in the Deep South and lived through the jump of segregationists in the 1960s from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party following the "Southern strategy" of Richard Nixon. Although it's been almost 10 years since that book, it tells the story pretty well. Her follow-up book, How the South Won the Civil War, published by Oxford University Press in 2020, continues the part of the story in my lifetime—beginning with Barry Goldwater and "Movement Conservatives" who she described a century before as "Confederates." I do know one thing—I am not a "mudsill." Unfortunately, far too many of my peers have no idea that they are, at least in the minds of those who stir fear of the "other."
Hear, hear!!!
Hi Vally,
Both books are well worth reading.