(((fight)))

Proxy wars yes

Not directly

Idk what that means

you use other countries to wage it

you dont directly do it

I'm pretty sure in Rocky 4 America fought Russia.

Ofuk

Sketchy

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Syria is a proxy war between Nato and Russia

The 60's caused things to get messy. The south still had plenty of Jim Crow dems but Kennedy and then Johnson moved civil right to the national stage culminating in the Civil Rights acts of '65 and '67 which were pushed through by Pres Johnson but had bipartisan support

Oh, and in Red Dawn too, i believe.

Bay of Pigglets invasion

lol

At the same time, though, many southern dems switched to become republicans.

Over Jim Crow

I'll have these niggars voting Democrat for the next 200 years

what a hero

Johnson was a racist but he cared about the poor, whether white or black

the syria war ended months ago

syria is proxy between US/nato/Isreal vs Russia/iran/syria VS turkey.

i was gonna say isnt he dead

around july 17th

(I'm a terribly typist :p )

rebels got crushed right

*muffled Imperial March in the distance*

Syrian FM has called for refugees to come back

Korea was also a proxy war

and jordan and isreal reopened their borders

same with afganistan in the 80s

Anyway, whatever you believe about the Southern Strategy, Nixon saw broad support in the south including from elected officials that were unabashed Jim Crow racists

https://twitter.com/willchamberlain/status/1060174795650859008

hahah

Fast forward to the 80's and Reagan's "War on Drugs". The laws were designed such that drugs used primarily by minorities carried much harsher penalties than drugs used primarily by whites. Crack cocaine versus powder being the best example. This resulted in vastly disproportionate numbers of black and Latino males getting felony charges. The impact of this reverberates in American culture to this day.

🤔

Now were there dems who voted for the unequal drug laws - yes.

I wonder who's idea it was for penalties to be more severe...I'm sure it was a bunch of white people in robes and not black community leaders.

Were there repubs who were skeptical? Not many, but some.

That's why I will agree that the idea of a "flip" as if it is gospel is inaccurate

But what we do have now is a democratic party that has the vast majority of black elected officials that exist in the US