Octavia--These boys were having so much fun playing with themselves, and then you interrupted. I was waiting for one of these intellectually superior specimens to tire of their personal attacks and opine about former Chief Justice Earl Warren. He was a Republican, nominated by a Republican President and confirmed by a Republican controlled Senate.
As a Republican, Warren's opinions tended to reflect the Republican philosophies of his era. Republicans at that time tended to be "rugged individualists," who stood up for the "little guy." That included supporting voting rights for minorities. This pissed off the John Birch Society and Southern Democrats. He also supported desegregation of schools and work places, reinforcing the negative views of these two groups.
Richard Nixon's seduction of the Dixiecrats and the change of the old Southern Democrat bloc to the Republican Party made equality and the Warren Court bad words in the GOP. In fact, the formerly revered Republican was so despised that Nixon swore to only nominate "Strict Constructionists," (folks attuned to the mores of the early nineteenth century, when slavery was legal) to the Supreme Court.
The political hack pictured above would not have been a member of the Republican Party I was raised to join, let alone nominated to such an important position. That was a party dedicated to expanding not denying the "blessings of freedom for all."
