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That is what you support And you are right the parties have changed over thirty years

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Ummm, no I don't support that. You take instances of irresponsibility and make sweeping generalizations about their extent and you completely ignore my point about Red State economic dependency on their more GDP prosperous Blue State neighbors.

I don't begrudge the imbalance, the tax redistribution, I just want Red State America to stop pretending that thye're so self-reliant and morally superior.

Shame, you were on the right track until the last few hysterical sentences.

I made the verifiable point that the parties have changed over the pat 55 years when the GOP actively decided to race bait for votes.

A GOP chairman DID apologize for that historical FACT:

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WAYBACK MACHINE: THAT TIME THE HEAD OF THE GOP APOLOGIZED FOR EXPLOITING RACIAL POLARIZATION

- Mike Allen on July 14, 2005:

“It was called ‘the southern strategy,’ started under Richard M. Nixon in 1968, and described Republican efforts to use race as a wedge issue ― on matters such as desegregation and busing ― to appeal to white southern voters. Ken Mehlman, the Republican National Committee chairman, this morning will tell the NAACP national convention in Milwaukee that it was ‘wrong.’

‘By the ‘70s and into the ‘80s and ‘90s, the Democratic Party solidified its gains in the African American community, and we Republicans did not effectively reach out,’ Mehlman says in his prepared text.

“Some Republicans gave up on winning the African American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong.’” So vintage. [WaPo]

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