Carpetbaggers and Scalawags...

Note: Robert Caro, in Means of Ascent, as quoted by Sidney Blumenthal:

http://content.epnet.com/pdf10/pdf/1990/NRP/04Jun90/12030932.pdf?T=P&P=AN&K=12030932&EbscoContent=dGJyMNXb4kSep7Y4yOvqOLCmrk%2bep7BSsKa4Sa6WxWXSAAAA&ContentCustomer=dGJyMPGptU%2bwrrNPrOPfgeyk44Dt6fIA&S=R&D=fjh: [Richard Coke] a Confederate veteran who in 1873 wrested the government of Texas from the Carpetbaggeres and freed the state from the injustices of Reconstruction..."

Comments

[Karl Bilawski]

I haven't read his Lyndon Johnson biographies, but Caro's _The Power Broker_ is a fascinating, compelling, and masterful book which I recommend to anyone interested in the realities of bureaucratic power, or simply interested in reading a gripping tale of twentieth century New York.

Despite being a grueling 1,344 pages - compelling reading, yes, but dense and demanding constant consideration - it's one of most worthwhile books I have read in years.

[John Morrison]

In other words, the confederate veteran helped the terrorists take over the southern state governments, overthrow democracy, and establish one-party (Dixiecrat) rule in the South.

We mustn't forget that today's 'Publican Party is dominated by the ideas of the former Dixiecrats who fled to the Republican Party during the civil rights movement. Is the party of Lott, Helms, Cheney, and the John Birch Society really the party of Lincoln?