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Gallup, JULY 29, 2020Representation Is a Re-Presentation of All Previous Elitist Tyrannies
Let the people vote on the most important issues. The majority in 1964 never would have voted for civil rights for the uncivilized Aframs, everybody knows that. Nor for Teddy Kennedy's "Come One, Come All" Immigration Bill. But those two policies created a majority that is against the previously successful American Way, so we have to have a civil war before we can have government by referendums.
On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law. The legislation prohibited discrimination on the basis of race in public places and shepherded in the integration of schools and other public places, as well as making employment discrimination illegal.
Two months later, Gallup asked Americans if they "approve or disapprove of [the] civil rights law ... recently passed by Congress and signed by the president." While the majority -- nearly six in 10 -- expressed their approval for the law, nearly a third of Americans disapproved, with the remaining 10% undecided.
Gallup Vault: Americans Narrowly OK'd 1964 Civil Rights Law
Polling data at the time found a majority of Americans backing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but with differences by race and region.
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