The biggest mistake in political history of the country... along with other extensions of voting rights. We were never supposed to be a democracy, and I would attribute our fall in large part to it. There isn't a single good thing that has come out of the extended voting rights. Instead we have gotten bigger and bigger government obsessed with replacing its own population. Today you can vote in American elections without ever even having stepped onto the soil.
Republicans have always had the feature of wanting to appear as not racist as possible, no matter how hard it ***** them and their kind in the ass. Conservatives who fail to conserve anything are the definition of failure.
God did you forget that since the late 1860's, blacks had the right to vote by Amendment, but it was the DEMOCRATS right up the 1960's who tried to prevent black voting, which means for nearly 80 years, their actions were unconstitutional.
It has been by law, legal for blacks to vote since 1869.
When will you assfucks EVER quit lying about this.
It was both Republicans & Democrats in the South that always voted against the civil rights. As proven by the vote on the Civil Rights Act of 21964.
Oh dear, it the Democrats who dominated the south by voting from the 1860's to the 1980's when Republicans finally gained the majority vote. In all that time Republicans were in the minority, who couldn't pass anything.
No it was Democrats who fought the
1957 CRA with Filibuster and low yes votes:
The
Democratic Senate Majority Leader,
Lyndon B. Johnson of
Texas, realized that the bill and its journey through Congress could tear apart his party, as southern Democrats opposed civil rights, and its northern members were more favorable. Southern Democratic senators occupied chairs of numerous important committees because of their long seniority. Johnson sent the bill to the
Senate Judiciary Committee, led by Democratic Senator
James Eastland of
Mississippi, who drastically altered the bill. Democratic Senator
Richard Russell, Jr., of
Georgia had denounced the bill as an example of the federal government seeking to impose its laws on states. Johnson sought recognition from civil rights advocates for passing the bill as well as recognition from the anti-civil rights Democrats for weakening the bill so much as to make it toothless.
[3]
The bill passed 285-126 in the
House of Representatives with a majority of both parties' support (Republicans 167–19, Democrats 118–107)
[4] It then passed 72-18 in the Senate, again with a majority of both parties (Republicans 43–0, Democrats 29–18).
[5] President Eisenhower signed the bill on September 9, 1957. "
Overwhelming yes voting from the Republicans, while barely get over 50% yes votes from the Democrats.
1957 Filibuster from
Wikipedia:
"Then-Democratic Senator
Strom Thurmond of
South Carolina, an ardent
segregationist, sustained the longest one-person
filibuster in history in an attempt to keep the bill from becoming law.
[6] His one-man filibuster lasted 24 hours and 18 minutes; he began with readings of every
US state's
election laws in alphabetical order. He later read from the
Declaration of Independence, the
Bill of Rights, and
George Washington's Farewell Address.
To prevent a quorum call that could have relieved the filibuster by allowing the Senate to adjourn, cots were brought in from a nearby hotel for the legislators to sleep on while Thurmond discussed increasingly irrelevant and obscure topics."
1964 Filibuster:
When the bill came before the full Senate for debate on March 30, 1964, the "Southern Bloc" of
18 southern Democratic Senators and one Republican Senator led by
Richard Russell (D-GA) launched a
filibuster to prevent its passage.
[16] Said Russell: "We will resist to the bitter end any measure or any movement which would have a tendency to bring about
social equality and
intermingling and amalgamation of the races in our (Southern) states."
[17]
Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Among the guests behind him is
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Strong opposition to the bill also came from Senator
Strom Thurmond (D-SC): "This so-called Civil Rights Proposals, which the President has sent to Capitol Hill for enactment into law, are unconstitutional, unnecessary, unwise and extend beyond the realm of reason. This is the worst civil-rights package ever presented to the Congress and is reminiscent of the
Reconstruction proposals and actions of the
radical Republican Congress."
[18]
bolding mine
99% of the opposition were the Democrats.
Clearly you have no interest in factual history after I've already schooled you twice on Composition Fallacy. Here you are running it out again expecting different results.
This time I'm just gonna pick off some juicy points.
No it was Democrats who fought the
1957 CRA with Filibuster and low yes votes:
Once AGAIN it was SOUTHERNERS.
Your own next line acknowledges that.
The
Democratic Senate Majority Leader,
Lyndon B. Johnson of
Texas, realized that the bill and its journey through Congress could tear apart his party, as
southern Democrats opposed civil rights, and its northern members were more favorable.
Not to be outdone, you then did it AGAIN in the 1964 section. Roll tape.
Said Russell: "We will resist to the bitter end any measure or any movement which would have a tendency to bring about
social equality and
intermingling and amalgamation of the races in our
(Southern) states."
[17]
YOUR OWN POST, dood.
Next in line please.
"Then-Democratic Senator
Strom Thurmond of
South Carolina, an ardent
segregationist, sustained the longest one-person
filibuster in history in an attempt to keep the bill from becoming law.
Strom Thurmond, who gained his Senate seat as a write-in after the Democratic Party kicked him off the state ballot. And who then took his balls and went Republican when he couldn't stop LBJ and the CRA.
It's kinda funny poking holes in desperation posts.
You are a dishonest person who keeps moving the goalpost, I was making the OBVIOUS point that it was Democrats who strongly opposed the
CRA of 1957 and again in 1964, the Republicans
NEVER did that. All but one Filibuster were from Democrats, senior Democrats tried to stop the bills process:
"Johnson sent the bill to the
Senate Judiciary Committee, led by
Democratic Senator
James Eastland of
Mississippi, who drastically altered the bill."
bolding mine
and,
"The goal of the
1957 civil rights act was to ensure that all Americans could exercise their right to vote. By 1957, only about 20% of blacks were registered to vote. Despite being the majority in numerous counties and
congressional districts in the South, most blacks had been effectively
disfranchised by discriminatory
voter registration rules and laws in those states since the late 19th and early 20th centuries that were heavily instituted and propagated by Southern
Democrats."
bolding mine
and,
"Normally, the bill would have been referred to the
Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Senator
James O. Eastland,
Democrat from
Mississippi. Given Eastland's firm opposition, it seemed impossible that the bill would reach the Senate floor.
Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield took a novel approach to prevent the bill from being relegated to Judiciary Committee limbo. "
bolding mine
Here is a section you conveniently ignored, because you are very dishonest,
1957 CRA:
The bill passed 285-126 in the
House of Representatives with a majority of both parties' support (Republicans 167–19, Democrats 118–107)
[4] It then passed 72-18 in the Senate, again with a majority of both parties (Republicans 43–0, Democrats 29–18).
[5] President Eisenhower signed the bill on September 9, 1957. "
Republicans overwhelmingly supported it, while Democrat barely passed it, this is the ENTIRE Congress vote.
1964 CRA
"By party
The original House version:
[22]
- Democratic Party: 152–96 (61–39%)
- Republican Party: 138–34 (80–20%)
Cloture in the Senate:
[23]
- Democratic Party: 44–23 (66–34%)
- Republican Party: 27–6 (82–18%)
The Senate version:
[22]
- Democratic Party: 46–21 (69–31%)
- Republican Party: 27–6 (82–18%)
The Senate version, voted on by the House:
[22]
- Democratic Party: 153–91 (63–37%)
- Republican Party: 136–35 (80–20%"
Once again by total vote Republicans voted yes by a lot higher percentage than the Democrats.
Recap:
It was the REPUBLICANS who gave the Blacks Citizenship, right to vote and end Slavery. all over strong Democrat opposition. Republicans NEVER supported the 1857 Dreadful Scott decision or the Plessy v. Ferguson of 1896 or resisted the Brown vs, Board of Education of 1954 with 9-0 decision.
It was ONLY Democrats who resisted the ruling, NEVER a Republican, from
Wikipedia
"
Deep South
Texas Attorney General
John Ben Shepperd organized a campaign to generate legal obstacles to implementation of desegregation.
[50]
In 1957,
Arkansas Governor
Orval Faubus called out his state's
National Guard to
block black students' entry to
Little Rock Central High School. President
Dwight Eisenhower responded by deploying elements of the
101st Airborne Division from
Fort Campbell, Kentucky, to Arkansas and by federalizing Arkansas's National Guard.
[51]
Also in 1957, Florida's response was mixed. Its legislature passed an
Interposition Resolution denouncing the decision and declaring it null and void. But
Florida Governor LeRoy Collins, though joining in the protest against the court decision, refused to sign it, arguing that the attempt to overturn the ruling must be done by legal methods.
In
Mississippi fear of violence prevented any plaintiff from bringing a school desegregation suit for the next nine years.
[52] When
Medgar Evers sued to desegregate
Jackson, Mississippi schools in 1963
White Citizens Council member
Byron De La Beckwith murdered him.
[53] Two subsequent trials resulted in hung juries. Beckwith was not convicted of the murder until 1994.
[54]
In 1963,
Alabama Gov.
George Wallace personally blocked the door to
Foster Auditorium at the
University of Alabama to prevent the enrollment of two black students. This became the infamous
Stand in the Schoolhouse Door[55] where Wallace personally backed his "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" policy that he had stated in his 1963 inaugural address.
[56] He moved aside only when confronted by
General Henry Graham of the Alabama National Guard, who was ordered by President John F. Kennedy to intervene.
Upland South
In North Carolina, there was often a strategy of nominally accepting
Brown, but tacitly resisting it. On May 18, 1954 the
Greensboro, North Carolina school board declared that it would abide by the
Brown ruling. This was the result of the initiative of D. E. Hudgins Jr., a former Rhodes Scholar and prominent attorney, who chaired the school board. This made Greensboro the first, and for years the only, city in the South, to announce its intent to comply. However, others in the city resisted integration, putting up legal obstacles[
how?] to the actual implementation of school desegregation for years afterward, and in 1969, the federal government found the city was not in compliance with the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Transition to a fully integrated school system did not begin until 1971, after numerous local lawsuits and both nonviolent and violent demonstrations. Historians have noted the irony that Greensboro, which had heralded itself as such a progressive city, was one of the last holdouts for school desegregation.
[57][58]
In
Moberly, Missouri, the schools were desegregated, as ordered. However, after 1955, the African-American teachers from the local "negro school" were not retained; this was ascribed to poor performance. They appealed their dismissal in
Naomi Brooks et al., Appellants, v. School District of City of Moberly, Missouri, Etc., et al.; but it was upheld, and SCOTUS declined to hear a further appeal.
[59][60]"
You aint got shit.