Racism in politics (D) from the conservative view point
Robert Byrd (D)
1940s, Robert Byrd (D) recruited 150 of his friends and associates to create a new chapter of the Ku Klux Klan.
"....he [Byrd] was once an Exalted Cyclops in the Ku Klux Klan. Byrd is a throwback to -- and remains nostalgic for -- a bygone (and not usually lamented) political era....." -- http://goo.gl/TlAQy
"A Senator's Shame
Byrd, in His New Book, Again Confronts Early Ties to KKK" -- http://goo.gl/2SRw
" I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side ... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds. " -- Robert C. Byrd
History Of The Democrats And The KKK.....(Why the Democrats started the KKK)
http://goo.gl/19YMu
The Ku Klux Klan was formed as a social club by a group of Confederate Army veterans in Pulaski, Tennessee in the winter of 1865-66.
http://goo.gl/n326
Wiki page - KKK (see notes, references, external sources)
http://goo.gl/pB7iX
The Democrat Party's Long and Shameful History of Bigotry and Racism
http://goo.gl/6VUpl
Jim Moran: Racism fueled Democrats' midterm losses
http://goo.gl/yiLdl
“At least on a historical level, the Democratic Party has always been the party of racism,” Mr. Bartlett said in a telephone interview with The Washington Times.
http://goo.gl/AHrsa
ASTONISHING HISTORY OF DEMOCRAT RACISM
Democrats have ALWAYS been the Party of Slavery and Racism
http://goo.gl/sLCwY
Racism Alive In Democratic Party
http://goo.gl/WSkQx
