I haven't heard them be called "the big tent party" since the sixties, and the republicans were the big tent party of the nineties. I seem to recall the democrats being gung-ho keeping the darkies down. I know here in Texas, the democrats passed a whole bunch of voting laws keeping blacks outta the polls.
Gotta be able to read and COMPREHEND the Constitution. The genius of it was if they answered the questions "incorrectly" they couldn't vote. So you would have to give a mini-book report, so to speak, and if the pollster didn't like your answer, you didn't vote. Fascinating stuff, since you could pretty much control who voted. That's your party's history, really. Come a long way, though, since the Civil War and grand wizards being elected senators. Keep those you don't want from speaking through outlandish measures and calling them "uncivilized" or "moronic" if they disagree with you publicly.
Came a long way, getting Obama elected, but your playbook is still the same when you strip it down I see.
