Today’s GOP would’ve been the confederates of 1860.
That's a lie the Democrats tell to confuse people. Don't forget all the Democrats who opposed civil rights legislation.
blackrook
"The South has tried to rewrite it's shameful history to make people believe the Civil War was a war for freedom, when they were fighting for the opposite of freedom for their residents of African ancestry. Even after the war was lost, the South oppressed blacks and didn't let them vote or even use the same water fountain. This was all done by the Democratic Party, and the Democrats have tried to rewrite history to make people forget that. "
Today’s GOP would’ve been the confederates of 1860.
"That's a lie the Democrats tell to confuse people. Don't forget all the Democrats who opposed civil rights legislation. "
The problem with conservatives is that they know so much that just aint so.
Now here is the TRUTH;
(which includes ALL of the REAL FACTS and not just CONSERVATIVE LIES!)
"The South has tried to rewrite it's shameful history to make people believe the Civil War was a war for freedom, when they were fighting for the opposite of freedom for their residents of African ancestry."
The SOUTH (white, conservative, christians) has tried to rewrite it's shameful history to make people believe the Civil War was a war for freedom, when they were fighting for the opposite of freedom for their residents of African ancestry.
"Even after the war was lost, the South oppressed blacks and didn't let them vote or even use the same water fountain."
Even after the war was lost, the South (white, conservative, christians) oppressed blacks and didn't let them vote or even use the same water fountain.
"This was all done by the Democratic Party, and the Democrats have tried to rewrite history to make people forget that. "
The Democratic party at that time was comprised of white, conservative christians.
and white conservative christians (like you) are STILL trying to rewrite history....
YOU are trying to rewrite it with these lies you are posting right now.....
""That's a lie the Democrats tell to confuse people. Don't forget all the Democrats who opposed civil rights legislation. "
Ok
I won't.....
here are the actual numbers;
Steele says GOP fought hard for civil rights bills in 1960s
"The Civil Rights Act -- which is best known for barring discrimination in public accommodations -- passed the House on Feb. 10, 1964 by a margin of 290-130. When broken down by party, 61 percent of Democratic lawmakers voted for the bill (152 yeas and 96 nays), and a full 80 percent of the Republican caucus supported it (138 yeas and 34 nays).
When the Senate passed the measure on June 19, 1964, -- nine days after supporters mustered enough votes to end the longest filibuster in Senate history -- the margin was 73-27. Better than two-thirds of Senate Democrats supported the measure on final passage (46 yeas, 21 nays), but an even stronger 82 percent of Republicans supported it (27 yeas, 6 nays).
The primary reason that Republican support was higher than Democratic support -- even though the legislation was pushed hard by a Democratic president, Lyndon B. Johnson -- is that the opposition to the bill primarily came from Southern lawmakers. In the mid 1960s, the South was overwhelmingly Democratic -- a legacy of the Civil War and Reconstruction, when the Republican Party was the leading force against slavery and its legacy. Because of this history, the Democratic Party in the 1960s was divided between Southern Democrats, most of whom opposed civil rights legislation, and Democrats from outside the South who more often than not supported it.
This pattern showed clearly in the House vote. Northern Democrats backed the Civil Rights Act by a margin even larger than that of Republicans -- 141 for, just four against -- while Southern Democrats were strongly opposed, by a margin of 11 yeas to 92 nays."
"is that the opposition to the bill primarily came from Southern lawmakers."
southern white conservative christians.....OPPOSED the civil rights acts......
Now....keep on lying....
