Yes, but, of course, the Republican Party is the party of white people. So says the New Republic, or rather its latest Leftist iteration. And, as always, its author is history-challenged, as Ann Coulter so effective demonstrates:
“In the presidential campaign the year before [1956], the Republican platform had expressly endorsed the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education [desegregating public schools]. The Democratic platform did not.
“To the contrary, that year, 99 members of Congress signed the ‘Southern Manifesto’ denouncing the court’s ruling in Brown. Two were Republicans. Ninety-seven were Democrats.”
Even the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the watershed law that finally vanquished almost a hundred years of racial segregation, could not have passed without votes from the “party of white people.”
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 