was nominated to be president it was his first public speech why would ronald reagan pick philadelphia mississippi he gave a speech there on states' rights with which in mississippi has historically meant the right to discriminate against african-americans why would he do that as his first speech in philadelphia mississippi a little town in illinois where his promise this is what he said these are actual quote from ronald reagan's speech he said he was going to restore to states local governments their power that properly belongs to them he said i believe in states' rights i believe we have distorted the balance of our government today by giving powers that were never intended to be given in the constitution to that federal establishment this was his first speech after his nominated president ronald reagan why philadelphia mississippi well it turns out the reason why philadelphia mississippi is pretty straight forward in one thousand sixty four three civil rights workers james chaney andrew goodman and michael schwerner were murdered in philadelphia mississippi they were missing for two months the

his first speech was in philadelphia mississippi old town of seven thousand people and he gave a speech about states' rights which is dog whistle code for for basically you know a racist agenda and what philadelphia mississippi is famous for is for three civil rights workers were murdered so basically reagan was reaching out to the races democratic base that that had been feeling left behind by when and johnson signing the voting rights act of things like that. if that and we either of those are very good democrats or republicans these days i mean they have once again you know back in yeah yeah and so i mean you know if even that myth is a myth and then there's the myth you know of well then the reagan democrats became clinton democrats well maybe maybe not i mean how did the sea merge in for example you write today in your piece about tom friedman tom friedman was wrong about the lexus in his famous book olive tree lexus it was that the lexus was actually created with huge government subsidies in japan and protectionist policies how is tom friedman wrong now in this whole narrative. we

surprising after all ever since reagan kicked off his one thousand nine hundred campaign in philadelphia mississippi where three civil rights workers were brutally murdered with a speech on states' rights every single republican candidate has had a dog whistle to their bigot base in order to get elected and then the same kind of bigotry that you just saw exhibited by by gordon kling and schmidt is is the kind of thing that is frankly cutting away at the foundations of this country it needs to be repudiated by all of us and the whole idea that somebody should not be able to build a church or a mosque or whatever simply because that's the religion they were born into is fundamentally un-american and in that context at least politically even. it's the good the bad in the very very. time of tahn it troll big bully. i gotta practice this more first the good rudy giuliani what no really over the weekend giuliani had some great advice for the republican party in an interview with c.n.n. about new york's decision to legalize same sex marriage giuliani had this warning for the g.o.p. . i think that marriage

think he would want to leave the civil rights of an african-american to the local voters in philadelphia, mississippi, where they buried three civil-rights workers under a dam after they had told them a bit at the demographic anomalies are such that we cannot -- after they had killed them. the demographic and, is such that we cannot leave the bill of rights to the local option, i"m 'm sorry. muslims have a right to have places of worship. now, sharia law is unconstitutional. it violates the separation of church and state and separation of mosque and state. secondly, it violates clauses that protect equal rights. under sharia law, women do not have equal rights. if a muslim uple choose to operate their marriage according to islamic law, that is a voluntary contract they enter into, and if they have a right to do that. i defend to the death of their right to do that, just as i defend to the death my right as a baptist to have my marriage operated under the christian guidelines that i believe th bible teaches for a husband-wife relationship. but i would fight to the death to try to keep that baptist vie

think he would want to leave the civil rights of an african-american to the local voters in philadelphia, mississippithey buried three civil-rights workers under a dam after they had told them a bit at the demographic anomalies are such that we cannot -- after they had killed them. the demographic and, is such that we cannot leave the bill of rights to the local option, i"m 'm sorry. muslims have a right to have places of worship. now, sharia law is unconstitutional. it violates the separation of church and state and separation of mosque and state. secondly, it violates clauses that protect equal rights. under sharia law, women do not have equal rights. if a muslim couple choose to operate their marriage according to islamic law, that is a voluntary contract they enter into, and if they have a right to do that. i defend to the death of their right to do that, just as i defend to the death my right as a baptist to have my marriage operated under the christian guidelines that i believe the bible teaches for a husband-wife relationship. but i would fight to the death to try to keep that baptist view fro