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MLK was a Republican BTW.

• GavinMcG 6y ago
  That's not at all clear, historically speaking. Even if he were, that would make perfect sense as a Southerner. We think of politics these days as relatively nationally uniform, but then-Democrats were the racists that the Southern Strategy sought to woo. https://time.com/5764282/martin-luther-king-jr-politics/ https://time.com/5764282/martin-luther-king-jr-politics/
• dragonwriter 6y ago
  > MLK was a Republican BTW. That's quite plausible. I'd expect that most American Southern Blacks (outside the South the parties were quite different and the issue is more complicated) that identified with a major party between the founding of the Republican Party and the Republican Southern Strategy of the late 1960s and beyond, which King was murdered too soon to be influenced by, were Republicans. The parties of today, despite sharing the same names, aren't ideologically the same parties as when King was alive (or, a fortiori, any earlier time), though.