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Crom on 31 January 2013
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Kasz216 said:
Mr Khan 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.

And yet it was a Southern Democrat who pushed it through.

Who himself was known to be a really big racist interstingly enough.  Not that it really matters since most of those Democrats who were against such legislation later became Republcians along with those who were for it.

Not true.  That is one of the biggest farces out there.

Most lifelong Democrats that were agianst Civil Rights stayed Democrats.  A few switched over and became known as Dixiecrats.

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 most 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)