Completely offtopic, but those states also refused to accept even the Democratic nomination process, let alone the candidate. They ran their own. Consequently the Dem candidate Stephen Douglas and the Repub candidate Lincoln won exactly the same number of electoral votes in the South: Zero each.
Hey dumbass - were the people who enforced Jim Crow laws Liberals or Conservatives?
Actually, the Republicans passed the Civil Rights Act.
And the South was solidly Democrat for years...
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow. Jim Crow Stories . Democratic Party PBS
The Democratic Party was formed in 1792, when supporters of Thomas Jefferson began using the name Republicans, or Jeffersonian Republicans, to emphasize its anti-aristocratic policies. It adopted its present name during the Presidency of Andrew Jackson in the 1830s.
Wrong again. Jefferson's "Democratic-Republican" party (known informally as "Republican") has no connection with either the present Democratic Party or the present Republican Party.
I haven't seen a post this historically stupid since Special Ed. Go buy a history book.
Actually, the Republicans passed the Civil Rights Act.
Bzzt. Strike three. Let's show our studio audience and all the folks at home the correct answer:
The original House version:
- Southern Democrats: 7–87 (7–93%)
- Southern Republicans: 0–10 (0–100%)
- >>> ALL SOUTHERNERS: 7-97 (6.7%--93.3%)
- Northern Democrats: 145–9 (94 – 6%)
- Northern Republicans: 138–24 (85 – 15%)
- >>> ALL NORTHERNERS: 283-33 (89.6%--11.4%)
The Senate version:
- Southern Democrats: 1–20 (5–95%)
- Southern Republicans: 0–1 (0–100%)
- Northern Democrats: 45–1 (98–2%)
- Northern Republicans: 27–5 (84–16%)
- ALL SOUTHERNERS: 1--21 (4.5%--95.5%)
- ALL NORTHERNERS: 72--6 (92.3%--7.7%)
Yes, there is a party pattern in that each line shows more support from the D side than the R side. But again, 94 versus 85 on one side is not significant.
But
96 on one side versus 92 on the other side?? You just hit the motherlode. The numbers don't lie; your pattern is clearly there but it's regional, not political. And
regional, once again for you slow readers who can't think of a point on your own and lean on cut-n-paste from the Echosphere, means
cultural.
You take the numbers from the North -- both Dems and Repubs are for it.
You take the numbers from the South -- both Dems and Repubs are agin' it.
It's truly bipartisan in both directions. (!)
And to think people bitch about "gridlock".
Canard obliterated.
And by the way the Civil Rights Movement did not "begin in the 1960s", Dumbass.
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