NYcarbineer
Diamond Member
Hey....remember that spanking I gave you in the last thread, showed every statement you presented was wrong?
And I said "You know nuttin."
Remember that?
Well, you still know nuttin.'
1. Every segregationist who ever served in the Senate was a Democrat, and remained a Democrat except for Strom Thurmond. He remained a Democrat for eighteen years after running for President as a Dixiecrat- before he became a Republican. Theres a reason they are not called Dixiecans.
2. The Dixiecrats were welcomed back into the Democratic fold with open arms. Democrats never denied a segregationist a committee chairmanship or a leadership position because of his noxious views on race. No Democrat has ever been punished for making a racist remark .More than 80 percent of Republicans in the House and Senate voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 .[The] record on race, of Thurmond the Republican is pretty good. He was among the first of Southern senators to hire blacks for his staff. He supported blacks for judgeships. He voted for extension of the Voting Rights Act. Jack Kelly
Barry Goldwater voted AGAINST the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and not only did the Republican Party reward him with the nomination for President,
but he all but swept the old South, the old Solid (Democratic) South
as CONSERVATIVE white Southern Democrats abandoned the Democratic party to join a Republican Party that was now more friendly to their racial segregationist views.
"...Sen. Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee for president that year, voted against the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. A founder of the NAACP in Arizona, Goldwater was a vehement foe of segregation. But he was also an ardent libertarian. He thought two of the seven major provisions of the bill - on housing and public accomodation - were unwarranted and unconstitutional intrusions by the federal government into private affairs."
Jack Kelly
That's propagandistic horseshit.
You can't 'be' against segregation and vote for it.
Why did the Southern Democrats turn Republican en masse in 64, with their votes?