I know it was the Democrats that were segregationists, Rush told me so.

Anyone knowledgeable about American history knows that SOUTHERN Democrats, out of step with their party, opposed Civil Rights during the 1950’s and the first half of the 1960’s.

Rush knows this fact very well. He is counting on being able to fool folks without any contradiction. With no fairness doctrine, he can say anything he wants. No one is allowed on his radio stations after his shows to set the record straight. Rush is not only a hired gun liar but he is a coward. He won't allow stations to broadcast any criticism or corrections of his lies (Randy Rhodes radio personality from Florida revealed that fact in 2005).

Further more, after LBJ signed the Civil Rights bill that finally passed in 1964, he lamented that he had lost the South for the Democrats for generations.

Those Democrats either retired, repented (as Byrd, who repeatedly acknowledged his error and apologized) or, like most, including Strom Thurmond, changed parties to REPUBLICAN.

Democrats say GOOD RIDDANCE to the RACISTS that were embraced with open arms by Republicans.