Objection to Stevenson’s choice of a Southern Democrat to run with him against Eisenhower shows us what is wrong with progressives. They expect radical woke views to operate before anyone had heard of them. The South in 1952 was indeed segregationist and to win election the Democrats had to accept this. To think Republicans were really more friendly to blacks at that time is ludicrous; they might pretend to this liberality but it was entirely hypocritical to say the least.
Objection to Stevenson’s choice of a Southern Democrat to run with him against Eisenhower shows us what is wrong with progressives. They expect radical woke views to operate before anyone had heard of them. The South in 1952 was indeed segregationist and to win election the Democrats had to accept this. To think Republicans were really more friendly to blacks at that time is ludicrous; they might pretend to this liberality but it was entirely hypocritical to say the least.