# John Murtha calls "western Pa" racist **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [October 15, 2008, 10:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/john-murtha-calls-western-pa-racist/200189 "2008-10-15T22:23:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 21
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> [@FS:2005 Cobalt SS/SC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-2005-cobalt-ss-sc/38377/6): > > What no one is bringing up is that poor black people ALWAYS vote Democrat. If Obama was Scandinavian he’d STILL have the black vote. More black people might be showing up because he’s black, but more Vietnam vets might be showing up for McCain based on his time in Hanoi alone. > > People crack me up. What is ironic is that the Republican party was primarily founded on the principals of the “Abolitionist” movement (anti-slavery for those who didn’t pay attention in history class). Democrats hated the Republicans for this position. Before 1948 southern Democrats saw their party as the defender of the southern way of life which included racial segregation. When segregation was outlawed by court order and by the Civil Rights acts of 1964 and 1965, die-hard DEMOCRAT governors Orval Faubus of Arkansas, Lester Maddox of Georgia, and George Wallace of Alabama openly resisted integration to the point that the National Guard had to be called in! Just some historical facts, but who cares about facts or history… --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/john-murtha-calls-western-pa-racist/200189)._