> Nathan Newman wrote:
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>> If you gave me the choice of the political makeup of the Democrats in 1937
>> or 1965 or the politics of today's Democrats, but with the total numbers
>> from 1937 or 1965, I'd keep today's Dems in a heartbeat.
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> Nathan's right about this. It's long been an article of left faith that the Dems have moved to the right, but that depends on your point of comparison. If it's the early 1970s, maybe. If it's just about any other time in American history, the case is much harder to make. The party of the 1930s and 1950s was full of reactionary southern racists.
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Whenever I hear this argument, I always want to ask: What if you compared Northern Dems from 1965 to today's Northern Dems?
Seth