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What is the political party of Senator and former member of the KKK Robert Byrd?
Youthful indiscretion? I thought he joined in his 20s and stayed in til his 30s. Then repeatedly praised them at the beginning of his Senate career, when he was in his 40s.
I thought he didn't denounce them until they became politically unpopular.
17 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Why, that would be the DUMocrat Party, of course!
Or is that the DUMoKKKrat Party???
E. S. A. D., liberals!
- Anonymous5 years ago
From Wikepedia: "When running for Congress in 1952, he announced, "After about a year, I became disinterested, quit paying my dues, and dropped my membership in the organization. During the nine years that have followed, I have never been interested in the Klan." During this campaign, "Byrd went on the radio to acknowledge that he belonged to the Klan from 'mid-1942 to early 1943,' according to newspaper accounts. He explained that he had joined 'because it offered excitement and because it was strongly opposed to communism.' " So we can assume he ended his membership in 1951, 55 years ago. There is no reason to think he maintained some secret membership beyond that year.
- ?Lv 51 decade ago
Surely the asker realizes that Byrd is a Democrat. Senator Byrd has repeatedly apologized for his youthful indiscretion. The asker would do well to note that Ronald Reagan attempted to join the Communist Party in the 1930s, and they rejected him. People can change.
Source(s): Additional info: In 1952, Byrd claimed that he had quit paying dues and quit participating in Klan events after about a year of membership. Someone editing the wikipedia page on Byrd claimed that he still supported the Klan more than a year after joining, but the link that is supposed to back this editor's claim is broken. Check out the wikipedia page and the sources it cites for yourself. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd#Participa... - Anonymous1 decade ago
Democrat...What was the majority party of the South 100 years ago? Democrat. What was the majority party of the North 100 years ago? Republican. What about know a days? North = Democrat, South = Republican. Sometime in the last 80 years or so the values of the two parties switched
Source(s): "My recent novel [Nineteen Eighty-Four] is NOT intended as an attack on Socialism or on the British Labour Party (of which I am a supporter), but as a show-up of the perversions . . . which have already been partly realized in Communism and Fascism. . . . The scene of the book is laid in Britain in order to emphasize that the English-speaking races are not innately better than anyone else, and that totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere." -George Orwell (Writer of 1984 and Animal Farm) - Mike SLv 71 decade ago
I believe the man is a member of the party of the people. You know the party that represents all the minority's in the US so well. I speak of the Democrat party of course. Good luck to you
- Anonymous1 decade ago
He was a member of the democratic party.
- soldierLv 51 decade ago
also did you know the Democratic Party are formerly the White Supremacist Party?
Yes, they used to pass laws against black people in favor of their voter base, the Irish. They pandered to immigrant groups like they do today with Latinos.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
In liberal terms. You are the racist. Byrd is the humanitarian being a Democrat and all today.
Martin Luther King was a registered REPUBLICAN becuase of guys like Byrd.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
he is a democrat and he was wrong to be in the kkk ,but he was right and was one of a few to oppose the Iraq war .He has did more good than harm. He defends the Constitution when others choose to weaken it