By: Bobby E. Mills, PhD
The Grand Ole Party of Abraham Lincoln has evolved into the Ole Dixiecrat Party of the Southern Confederacy. The key question is: what happened? Sadly, Texas has become the strongest GOP state in the nation. The question of questions is WHY? For over one hundred years the GOP was not a viable force in Texas politics, because Blacks controlled the GOP. Historically, Black Americans held significant influence over the GOP and made up (90%) of the delegates at the first Republican Convention held in Houston on July 4th, 1867. In attendance were (150) Blacks and (20) Whites. The Second State Convention was chaired by Norris Wright Cuney (1883-1887).
In fact, Cuney Homes is named in honor of Norris Wright Cuney. In 1978, William P. Clements became the first Republican Governor in over 100 years. In 2026, the GOP controls all three branches of state government. In American politics, a political party philosophical ideological switch has occurred. The Republican Party of Lincoln has become the Southern Dixiecrat Party of the Southern Confederate States, and the Democrat Party has become the inclusive multicultural democracy party of Abraham Lincoln, because a nation divided against itself cannot stand. This is only a brief factual synopsis of the history of political partisanship in Texas. The reality behind the synopsis is simply the ugliness and ungodliness institutional racism.
The truth behind the political switch-a-rue (changing of the guard) is simply the Civil Rights Act (1964) and the Voting Rights Act (1965). When these legislative Acts were passed President Lyndon B. Johnson emphatically declared that: “the Democrat Party has just lost the South”. America, President Lyndon Johnson did not lie! The Republican Party of Lincoln believed in freeing the slaves. The Trump MAGA-Cult-GOP believe in enslaving non-Whites. However, the true reasons for the Civil War were not slavery, but economic advantages and state rights, White Privilege. The Emancipation Proclamation Act of (1863) tragically became the basis for the political assassination of President Lincoln by a Southerner, John Wilkes Booth, in cooperation with Northern Sympathizers.
The political assassination of President Lincoln was initiated and precipitated because the Vice President, Andrew Johnson, a southerner, did not believe in the Lincoln doctrine of preserving the Union. President Lincoln believed in preserving the Union. President Andrew Johnson aimed to reconstruct the South, withdrew Union soldiers, and did not mandate reparations for Black individuals, forty acres and a mule. Now, we know why the voting stronghold of the GOP is Southern states even in the 21st century.
ThThe 21st century GOP because of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act is far more politically asinine and destructive to multicultural democracy. The Not So Supreme Court recently nullified both historic pieces of legislation. The Democratic Party in conjunction with the Dixiecrats, such as the KKK and other White Nationalists groups brought their racist talents to the MAGA-Cult GOP, and that alliance has brought absolute White Privilege madness and chaos to Grand Ole Party (GOP). Presently, we are witnessing MAGA-Cult political leadership madness from The White House, the House of Representatives, and the Senate, because the GOP has no real multicultural democracy-oriented policies.
They only have theories and hypotheticals based upon alternative facts and White Privilege Autocracy. The Golden Escalator experience of Donald J. Trump in 2016, only aerobated the existing socio-economic racial confusion in the GOP. The Trump
Presidency has taken the GOP to the depths of midnight confusion, and now the GOP is groping in spiritual and political darkness. Hence, America is currently mired in significant confusion due to the GOP’s inability to establish effective checks and balances in Presidential governance.
What a Shame! Even more disheartening is the spiritual fact that Christian Right Evangelicals are trafficking in alternative spiritual truths, boldly attempting to make God out of a liar. Consequently, the Grand Ole Party (GOP) has become a political personality cult, without a spiritual- moral conscience. White Militaristic Organizations believe wholeheartedly that all things can be settled by guns, guns, and more guns (militaristic actions). Pathetically, the chairman of the Texas GOP associates with a known high profile White Nationalist. Fox “FAKE” News has boldly proven that they traffic in lies, lies, and damn lies, not factual news reporting (The Dominion Lawsuit).
President Trump is livid that The Supreme Court finally said “HELL NO” to President Trump’s leadership madness, only the Congress has the power to levy tariffs. Some spiritually CONFUSED Blacks and other permanent- tan minorities say, “it all good in the devil” if I receive crumbs from ole master’s table. Even Vivek Ramaswamy, a former GOP Presidential candidate, obtained an IVY LEAGUE HARVARD education to become a political fool. America, “What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?” (Romans 8: 31). Hallelujah! Finally, the Trump MAGA-Cult GOP is so spiritually- intellectually upside- down that Ronald Reagan could not receive the Party’s Presidential nomination. Certainly not President George H. Bush nor George W. Bush, Jr. What a shame!
