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I'm not at all sure these 'new things' are so. After being pushed out of the Democratic Party I took up with the other guys, after being denied a spot as a party delegate with the Democrats because I was pro-life (and every other pro-life person similarly excluded). The Republicans had no such litmus tests and I served briefly on the state central committee. We didn't have any segregationist agendas. You can say that there was some sort of super-secret agenda, and the dupes were being used, but I think it's a bit laughable to go there.I didn't say I thought you hated me.
The people you have met in the pro-life cause may well have been very sincere and still not aware they were being used as pawns in a segregationist ploy.
According to the article the segregationists -used- these people to bulk up the vote counts for the Republican party's segregationist ambitions. Just because you didn't know you were being used doesn't mean you weren't being used. Your lived history may appear to you differently because you didn't know you were being used.
That is the advantage of learning new things.
The real history of the pro-life movement is one where Catholics were the standard bearers and Protestants were suspiciously aloof from such a Catholic undertaking. Then slowly, following Francis Schaeffer, a trickle of Protestants started showing up. At the same time the hard left within the Democratic Party started marginalizing pro-life members (mostly Catholics) of their own party, shutting them out of any meaningful role. Today, Democratic Party orthodoxy demands support for abortion. No wonder the other party benefited from Catholics who were once almost exclusively Democrats. That's the real tragedy. We could have had huge progress on the environment and so many other issues of traditional Democratic Party concerns had the hard left within the Party not had the fanatical desire to drive out the pro-life members. But that's a story that isn't told in your article. Instead there is the claim that it was all a ruse by some sort of former Dixiecrats to support segregation.
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