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[–] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 19 points 5 months ago (3 children)

The parties switched up during the Civil Rights Movement. Why does the map include both before and after that time?

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The Civil Rights movement is what caused Republicans to move towards business and away from helpful social policies. The Democrats saw the shift as lots of their own rank fled to join the Goldwater Rs and pivoted to grab the underrepresented folks. This broadly created the current business focused Republican Party and the social focused Democrats.

[–] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

The business part is not true. Hoover was a Republican President who loved big businesses. FDR was a Democratic President who enacted many policies to help poor people.

[–] stankmut@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The republican party has been pro big business since the late 1800s. As the other person has mentioned, you can see the parties' modern economic stances by the 1930s. The Civil Rights movement just shifted them to the Business and Racism party.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 5 months ago

Yeah, from what I can tell, pre-Nixon Republicans were basically libertarians, and pre-Nixon Democrats were basically whatever the opposite of that is, although they were both moderate to near-indistinguishability at times.

[–] Didros@beehaw.org 0 points 5 months ago

I think you are thinking of the whigg party and the democrats. That was long before the Civil Rights Movement. The big shift during the time was black voters switching to democrats because of republican speeches against the Civil Rights Act. https://www.studentsofhistory.com/ideologies-flip-Democratic-Republican-parties

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world -2 points 5 months ago

Switched as in the spiderman meme. America doesn't have a left and right party, you have two rightwing ones.