A Race to the North

Whenever anybody brings up the racist past of the Democratic party, the left is always quick to point out that these were the Southern Democrats and that their lineage eventually found its way more to the Republican party. Yeah, well guess what? Woodrow Wilson was from New Jersey and he was amongst the most virulent racists in American political history. a) His writings are absolutely littered with racist sentiments (one of the dude's quotes is actually used in the 1915 film, "Birth of a Nation"), b) he supported eugenics and campaigned vigorously for the compulsory sterilization of not just poor blacks but the mentally retarded, and c) as President, he championed segregation and racial discrimination all throughout the Federal government...........................................................................And Wilson was far from the only progressive thinker (from the U.S. and England) who espoused such sentiments. Margaret Sanger, John Maynard Keynes, H.L. Mencken, George Bernard Shaw, Teddy Roosevelt, and H.G. Wells also advocated such things as eugenics and isn't is about time that this nasty side of the progressive movement got a little exposure here?