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I'm not normally one for partisan hackery but...?

Why do Republicans continue to point out that it was the southern Democrats who opposed civil rights legislation as if the south weren't as solidly Republican today as it was Democratic in the 1950s?

Update:

Way to miss the point zaza. The civil rights bill was actually supported by basically equal portions of both parties, southerners voted against it while northerners supported it. The point was that the Democrats immediately lost the south to the Republicans in the next election.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Because they were home-schooled for the most part. They got the Fox News version of history. They also think the earth is 6,000 years old and that a talking snake existed instead of accepting the scientific fact of evolution.

  • 1 decade ago

    I suppose because it is true. Senator Al Gore Senior led the filibuster attempt to stop the civil rights legislation along with Bill Clinton's mentor, Senator Fullbright and the former KKK grand dragon but still serving Democrat Senator, Robert Byrd.

    When Democrats erroneously try to take credit for passing civil rights laws instead of acknowledging that far more Republicans voted for it than Democrats, we seek to correct the record.

    We, the Conservatives of America, live in the world of reality. We despise revisionist history.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Because we're sick of you guys calling us racists for the simple reason that we are conservatives. The truth is, the Republicans pushed for civil rights, the Democrats opposed them and when fmr. President Johnson realized it was going to be political death for him not to sign the bill, he hijacked it and signed it. That is just plain unchangeable history.

    Another instance of unchangeable history in the civil rights battle is the fact that the late Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-AZ, widely known as one of the fathers of modern conservatism, co-founded the Arizona chapter of the NAACP. Did he vote against the 1964 Civil Rights bill after having voted in favor of others prior to it? Yes, because he didn't like all the pork the Democrats had inserted into it.

    All I can say is, Democrats have got a hell of a nerve claiming they are the inclusive and colorblind ones when it is Democrats who push this Affirmative Action, which is nothing but the most divisive piece of government-sponsored segregation sh!t ever.

  • 1 decade ago

    Umm, because they did. The bill Johnson signed was a bill authored by Eisenhower in the 50's. Democrats fought it tooth and nail and when it passed under Johnson, more Republicans than Democrats voted for it.

    http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/1957_civil_ri...

    Fun facts......

    Democrats passed Black Codes and Jim Crow laws

    Democrats fought to keep blacks in slavery

    The Klu Klux Klan was formed by Democrats

    Democrats fought civil rights laws in the 1860s, 1950s, and 1960s

    JFK voted AGAINST the 1957 Civil Rights Act when he was a Senator

    Al Gore Sr. voted AGAINST the 1957 Civil Rights Act as well

    JFK was OPPOSED to Dr. King’s March on Washington

    In 1912, President Woodrow Wilson kicked all blacks out of federal government jobs.

    President Lyndon Johnson referred to Dr. King as a “****** preacher” b/c of King’s opposition to the Vietnam War

    Democrat Senator Ernest Hollings had the Confederate Flag put up at the South Carolina state capitol when he was governor.

    In the 1850s, Democrats were so adamantly pro-slavery, that they were often referred to as “Slaveocrats”

    Not a single Democrat voted for the 14th Amendment, which allowed blacks to become U.S. citizens.

    Republicans and Civil Rights

    Republicans passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866

    Republicans passed the Reconstruction Act of 1867

    Republicans unanimously passed the 13th Amendment, which prohibited slavery

    When Republicans first proposed an amendment (in 1869) to give blacks the right to vote, 98% of them voted in favor, while 97% of Democrats voted against it.

    President Dwight Eisenhower pushed to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1957

    Eisenhower sent troops to Arkansas to assist with the desegragation of public schools

    Eisenhower’s appointment of Chief Justice Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court facilitated desegregation with the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision

    Dr. King’s March on Washington was organized by A. Phillip Randolph, a Republican

    Republicans started the NAACP

    Republican Senator Everett Dirksen, from Lincoln’s state of Illinois, crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which prohibited housing discrimination.

    A higher percentage of Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than did Democrats

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