Idunno anyone who buys this crap, so why does it ooze out of the mass media?

Only in the era PB (that's post-Bush) would it be possible to propagate the idea that the Democratic party is racist because of its historical relationship with the KKK and southern white racists. If you say "Whaaaa?," just google "democrats KKK." Anyone with a handful of braincells ought to be able to filter out this little nugget of B.S. or embrace it. It's a tool for the guys who embrace it to manipulate the people without a handful of braincells. It's a great tool for misinformation, because it's true...or it was...a hundred years ago. The fact that it would take more than five seconds to explain that on one of those I-can-holler-louder-than-you "news" shows makes it virtually irrefutable.

The original democratic party was formed in opposition to the Federalists who you might describe as power-hungry elitists. It embraced the working class and was the preferred party of southern farmers and rural folks. These divisions--northern, urban, upper class vs. southern, rural, working class--have remained stable through various name changes and became intensified as the yankees allied with blacks in opposition to southern whites. The Republican Party succeeded the Federalists and the Whigs as the torchbearer of the urban elites, but was making inroads in the rural south on economic and religious issues. When the Democratic party split over the racial issues (specifically the KKK) in the nineteen twenties, the two parties began a gradual realignment whereby the two parties virtually traded voter bases. Most of this realignment was related to religious and morality issues. Of course the KKK was composed of protestant Christians who now fell into the Republican camp based on morality issues. Now, thanks to Democratic support for civil rights in the '50s, today we have a predominantly Republican South--composed of the descendants of the Democrats of pre-civil rights era.

It's been a while since I've heard anything about this, but it's just another example of how Americans are stupid. And, it still bugs me that, even though I really don't seek this crap out, somehow the media delivers it to me. Do they expect me to buy this crap? Or, maybe they're just trying to keep me and everyone else from paying attention to what's really going on.

''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.'' ---anonymous Bush Advisor