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Crom on 30 January 2013
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spaceguy said:
Crom said:

Space guy

 

In the 26 major civil rights votes after 1933, a majority of Democrats opposed civil rights legislation in over 80 percent of the votes.

By contrast, the Republican majority favored civil rights in over 96 percent of the votes.

 

The Civil Rights Act of 1965 was passed because of Republican votes.  2/3rds of Democrats voted against it.  2/3rds of Republicans voted for it.

 

If you want to play these little games and pretend an entire party is racist.....take a look at the terrible history of your own party when it comes to civil rights. 

Honestly if people would stop accusing others of being racist and would stop talking about race in every issue then this country would probably move past race.  Stop talking race and let the issue die so we can all move past it.  Race shouldn't matter.  We are all just people.  That is all that should matter.

HAAAAAAAAAAAA! this shows you hav no clue what you talking about. Political party's are very fluid, meaning they change. The republicans now are the democrates of the past. SO to say that something from almost a 100 years ago is relevant today is funny.

HAAAAAAAA!  What are we laughing about? The fantasy land that you are living in.

 

I have seen this excues a million times.  1965 was not 100 years ago.

Democrats were the most racist party back then and voted against almost everything that had to do with Civil Rights.  That is a fact.  Most of these people have died off though and neither party is racist like you like to claim.

The number of true racists today is very small believe it or not.

They are irrelevant.

 

Anyway, most lifelong Democrats that were agianst Civil Rights stayed Democrats.  A few switched over and became known as Dixiecrats though.

Most of the Dixiecrats did not become Republicans. They created the Dixiecrats and then, when the civil rights movement succeeded, they returned to the Democratic fold. It was not till much later, with a new, younger breed of Southerner and the thousands of Northerners moving into the South, that Republicans began to make gains.

Guys like Richard Russell, Mendell Rivers, Clinton's mentor William Fulbright, Robert Byrd, Fritz Hollings and Al Gore Sr. remained Democrats till their dying day.

Democrats held the south for a long time.  Every southern state voted for Carter in 1976.  By the 80's most of the old racists had died off.  Almost every House of Representative member elected in the south for decades after the Civil Rights Act was a Democrat.

In 2013 mosat of the southern states now vote Republican.  Just because southern states used to be racist it isn't true anymore except in backwater areas (like certain spots in Mississippi)