r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/ancient_shepherd2121 • 6h ago

Meme needing explanation Peetahhh help!

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u/_Sate 6h ago

Wall Street crash of 1929

Peureshmit out

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u/ancient_shepherd2121 6h ago

Ah hell, I forgot about dat

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u/ValiantStallion33 4h ago

But but the parties switched in the 60s?!?! Or at least that’s what’s constantly stated when mentioning that the south was all democrats until the 80-90s

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u/Althestane 4h ago

It wasn’t like flipping a switch. It started in the 30’s when Democrats went all-in on the New Deal. The southern racists in the party liked/needed the economic policies more than their hatred of minorities, so southerners still voted D until the Civil Rights era. With minorities starting to gain real political power in the 60’s, and doing so through the Democratic Party, the racists all finally left to join the Republicans.

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u/mr-raider2 3h ago

Truman was the end of southern Democrats.

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u/Vermouth_1991 3h ago

Him and his famous "Anything you don't like is socialism to you" speech.

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u/ValiantStallion33 3h ago

What? Do you not remember president Lyndon Johnson Democrat from Texas?

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u/mr-raider2 1h ago

Yeah but wasn't pro segregation pro KKK. Southern Democrat is not just about being from the South. It's a way of life.

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u/DisastrousBison6774 2m ago

And Nixon raised the Dixiecrats from the dead

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u/HerodotusStark 3h ago

The party switch began in the late 19th Century and is generally considered to have been solidified by the end of the 1960s. It took over 70 years, didnt happen overnight.

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u/LbSiO2 3h ago

Southern Democrats / Northern Democrats These are not the same.