Question for Democrats

@SomeMichGuy On November 14 1960, Bridges, six, became the first black student to attend a previously all-white elementary school in New Orleans.
and the police had to escort them to the school .

@markansas Yes, that's the ugly social side.

We're past that...well, most Democrats aren't white supremacists.

But having better roads & schools...and energy from renewable sources
businesses held accountable
education funded
single-payer health care
better transportation
etc., etc., etc.

Looks good to me.

@markansas @SomeMichGuy

Honestly, I think you can thank Ike and the Republicans for both roads and even desegregation to some extent.

Post FDR, at least until Kennedy, the Dems were pretty irrelevant.

@MistyCee THOSE Republicans, yes.

But actually funding good public things is part of the Democratic programme, as well as funding it via rational taxation.

@MistyCee yup thats about when the dems changed into a better party of the people.

@MistyCee I don't know. Truman followed FDR for eight years. He moved the U.S. from war to peace and championed Civil Rights. Pretty successful tenure by most accounts.

@Ynotisay Mebbe, but who the heck remembers Truman?

@MistyCee Can't really answer that. I'd like to think a whole lot of black people and workers remember him. That's outside of every American at the time who saw WW2 end. Bet the Japanese remember him too. Probably a little differently though.

@MistyCee The decendents of DEWEY!!!

@MistyCee Who remembers Truman? Anyone who reads history? (Yeah, I was alive when he was President, but too young to remember him. The first I remember is Eisenhower.)

@SomeMichGuy in 1967 we went to schools in New Portables. Temporary class rooms. They're still in use. Ours wasn't a wanted generation.

@Roundandroundwego Sorry you did. Which state was that. It wasn't what happened for me.