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

Pretty much yeah.  Well he didn't say all.  Just vast majority.

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.

I'm sorry, but which act are you talking about? The Voting Rights Act of 1965, or the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

Wikipedia is pretty clear about the actual numbers that voted in each case.

Voting Rights Act

73% of Senate Democrats voted in favour of it. 78% of House Democrats voted in favour of it.

Civil Rights Act

61% of House Democrats voted for the original. 63% of House Democrats voted in favour of the Senate version.
66% of Senate Democrats voted for cloture. 69% of Senate Democrats voted in favour of the Senate version.
Every Southern Republican voted against the Civil Rights act, both versions. The only reason that Republicans were more in favour than Democrats in total is because there were far more Southern Democrats than Southern Republicans.

Southern Democrats and Republicans voted 7% and 0% in the House and 5% and 0% in the Senate, respectively. Northern Democrats and Republicans voted 94% and 85% in the House and 98% and 84% in the Senate, respectively. So when you separate out the Southern states (the ones that were part of the Confederacy) from the rest, you find that the Democrats were more in favour of it in each region.

So, which act was it supposed to be that had Democrats voting 2/3rds against and Republicans 2/3rds for?

Pretty much no but a lot of your legislation support my thoery so go ahead spin.

You do realize mods can see your moderation history right?

To quote...

"Also you want to know who the republican base is. LOL a report came out and most Republicans are.

MALE, NON EDUACATED, WHITE MIDDLE/POOR CLASS, I will add mostly all racists, homophobic, woman haters. LOL, really who can deny it."

I mean... I know it can be hard to keep track, what with you having so many... but considering it was the last one that involved white supremicists... you would think you would know.  It's also kinda hard to both deny it yet also claim your right.  (Even harder when both statements are wrong)

As for the "Your legislation"...  give me a break.  Your so far left you can't even see where the middle is.

I mean hell, if you look at economics, the US reaction to the GFC was the most liberal.  If they would of went with the option you prefer, let the bankers go to jail.  It would of been the most conservative.

Wow.  Just wow.  So you are saying that democrats became republicans.  So does that mean that republicans at the same became democrats???? Otherwise there would be no democrats today if they magically turned into republicans.  You are hopeless. 

No party is always right on every issue.  Just because the democrat party was the Anti Civil Rights party doesn't mean you can rewrite history and say that democrats magically turned into republicans anytime it suits your agenda.  Let me guess....the absoulute failure of a president named Jimmy Carter magically changed into a republican too? 

I can see your grandkids (if you ever procreate) claim that Obama was a republican too when history has him marked down as another failed president too

W Bush was a failed president.  Obama is another failed president.  It doesn't matter what party symbol sits next to their name.  We need to quit reelection failed politicians. 

Seriously, people this clueless shouldn't be allowed to vote.

Great post.  Democrats screamed when Bush took away freedoms.  Obama ramps it up and the Democrats are silent.  I wish we could get rid of party labels and vote on the issues instead.  Too many people are hypnotized by the R or D next to a politicians name.

Are you talking about Johnson? 

"The man who said "I'll have those n*****s voting Democratic for the next 200 years"

That was his motivation for getting the Civil Rights Act passed. 

Too bad for him that he couldn't get his own party to do it. 

The vast majority of Republicans voted for Civil Rights.

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)