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As long as I don't have to sit at the back of the bus UNLESS I WANT TO or go through an alley to get to the door of a restaurant IF I WANT TO I don't care which political party endorsed the civil rights for minority Americans in this country. YOU GOT THAT!!
Most Dixiecrats went back to being democrats
The gain of republican power in the south had little to do with race
Young southerners and northerners who moved south are responsible for the rise in republican popularity because of economics not race
Something tells me Misty will ignore you carb.Most Dixiecrats went back to being democrats
The gain of republican power in the south had little to do with race
Young southerners and northerners who moved south are responsible for the rise in republican popularity because of economics not race
Republican popularity in the South had everything to do with race.
Barry Goldwater voted against the 1964 Civil rights act, he was rewarded with the 1964 Republican nomination, and, for example,
he got something like 87% of the vote in Mississippi, a state that had been largely Democrat for decades.
And when a Democrat President signed the Civil Rights Bill...Southern Democrats abandoned their party in droves. Nixon and the RNC membership welcomed them with open arms.
Once again explain the logic in why a racist would leave a party that only supported the Civil Rights bill by 60 percent for a party that supported the same bill by 80 percent?
That is easily explained when one notices the location of said members who abandoned the Democrats and how many Republicans there were in the South prior to the Civil Rights bill.
Coupled with the concerted effort by the RNC and Richard Nixon to cultivate such Dixiecrats by the time 1968 rolled around.
But you knew this already....it's just a statistical flim flam attempt by the OP. And a RNC talking point.
Once again explain the logic in why a racist would leave a party that only supported the Civil Rights bill by 60 percent for a party that supported the same bill by 80 percent?
That is easily explained when one notices the location of said members who abandoned the Democrats and how many Republicans there were in the South prior to the Civil Rights bill.
Coupled with the concerted effort by the RNC and Richard Nixon to cultivate such Dixiecrats by the time 1968 rolled around.
But you knew this already....it's just a statistical flim flam attempt by the OP. And a RNC talking point.
Your argument is just a DNC talking point. It doesn't address the logic in RGS statement.
Yes it is....but every once in a while, people like the OP and the Clerk will try to slip in their falsehoods, hoping no one is paying attention.
Sure thing, we are to believe that racist got mad at their party that barely supported civil rights and joined the party that overwhelmingly supported civil rights. You guys crack me up.
The Republicans under Nixon in 1968 overwhelmingly supported Civil Rights? Can you back that up, please?
Most Dixiecrats went back to being democrats
The gain of republican power in the south had little to do with race
Young southerners and northerners who moved south are responsible for the rise in republican popularity because of economics not race
Republican popularity in the South had everything to do with race.
Barry Goldwater voted against the 1964 Civil rights act, he was rewarded with the 1964 Republican nomination, and, for example,
he got something like 87% of the vote in Mississippi, a state that had been largely Democrat for decades.
"The Republican Party was not so badly split as the Democrats by the civil rights issue. Only one Republican senator participated in the filibuster against the bill. In fact, since 1933, Republicans had a more positive record on civil rights than the Democrats. In the twenty-six major civil rights votes since 1933, a majority of Democrats opposed civil rights legislation in over 80 % of the votes. By contrast, the Republican majority favored civil rights in over 96 % of the votes."
CongressLink: [Congress: The Basics - Lawmaking] Civil Rights: Major Features of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Notice how no one has answered this question I asked earlier:"The Republican Party was not so badly split as the Democrats by the civil rights issue. Only one Republican senator participated in the filibuster against the bill. In fact, since 1933, Republicans had a more positive record on civil rights than the Democrats. In the twenty-six major civil rights votes since 1933, a majority of Democrats opposed civil rights legislation in over 80 % of the votes. By contrast, the Republican majority favored civil rights in over 96 % of the votes."
CongressLink: [Congress: The Basics - Lawmaking] Civil Rights: Major Features of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Since 1933? How intentionally dishonest.
"The Republican Party was not so badly split as the Democrats by the civil rights issue. Only one Republican senator participated in the filibuster against the bill. In fact, since 1933, Republicans had a more positive record on civil rights than the Democrats. In the twenty-six major civil rights votes since 1933, a majority of Democrats opposed civil rights legislation in over 80 % of the votes. By contrast, the Republican majority favored civil rights in over 96 % of the votes."
CongressLink: [Congress: The Basics - Lawmaking] Civil Rights: Major Features of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
And when a Democrat President signed the Civil Rights Bill...Southern Democrats abandoned their party in droves. Nixon and the RNC membership welcomed them with open arms.
Once again explain the logic in why a racist would leave a party that only supported the Civil Rights bill by 60 percent for a party that supported the same bill by 80 percent?
"The Republican Party was not so badly split as the Democrats by the civil rights issue. Only one Republican senator participated in the filibuster against the bill. In fact, since 1933, Republicans had a more positive record on civil rights than the Democrats. In the twenty-six major civil rights votes since 1933, a majority of Democrats opposed civil rights legislation in over 80 % of the votes. By contrast, the Republican majority favored civil rights in over 96 % of the votes."
CongressLink: [Congress: The Basics - Lawmaking] Civil Rights: Major Features of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
And when a Democrat President signed the Civil Rights Bill...Southern Democrats abandoned their party in droves. Nixon and the RNC membership welcomed them with open arms.
Once again explain the logic in why a racist would leave a party that only supported the Civil Rights bill by 60 percent for a party that supported the same bill by 80 percent?
The party's dramatic reversal on civil rights issues culminated when Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964. On doing so he commented, "We [the Democrats] have lost the South for a generation." Meanwhile, the Republicans, led again by Richard Nixon, were beginning to implement their Southern strategy, which aimed to resist federal encroachment on the states, while appealing to conservative and moderate white Southerners in the rapidly growing cities and suburbs of the South. Southern Democrats took notice of the fact that 1964 Republican Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater had voted against the Civil Rights Act, and in the presidential election of 1964, Goldwater's only electoral victories outside his home state of Arizona were in the states of the Deep South.
The year 1968 was a trying one for the party as well as the United States. In January, even though it was a military defeat for the Viet Cong, the Tet Offensive began to turn American public opinion against the Vietnam War. Senator Eugene McCarthy rallied anti-war forces on college campuses and came within a few percentage points of defeating Johnson in the New Hampshire primary. Four days later Senator Robert Kennedy, brother of the former president, entered the race. Johnson stunned the nation on March 31 when he withdrew from the race; four weeks later his vice-president, Hubert H. Humphrey, entered. Kennedy and McCarthy traded primary victories while Humphrey stayed out the primaries and gathered the support of labor unions and the big-city bosses. Kennedy won the California primary on June 4 and may have been able to wrest the nomination from Humphrey, but he was assassinated in Los Angeles. (Even as Kennedy won California, Humphrey had already amassed 1000 of the 1312 delegate votes needed for the nomination, while Kennedy had about 700.[10]) During the 1968 Democratic National Convention, while police and the National Guard violently confronted anti-war protesters on the streets and parks of Chicago, the Democrats nominated Humphrey. Meanwhile Alabama's Democratic governor George C. Wallace launched a third-party campaign and at one point was running second to the Republican candidate Richard M. Nixon. Nixon barely won, with the Democrats retaining control of Congress.
The degree to which the Southern Democrats had abandoned the party became evident in the 1968 presidential election when the electoral votes of every former Confederate state except Texas went to either Republican Richard Nixon or independent George Wallace, the latter a former Southern Democrat. Defeated Democrat Hubert Humphrey's electoral votes came mainly from the Northern states, marking a dramatic shift from the 1948 election 20 years earlier, when the losing Republican candidate's electoral votes were mainly concentrated in the Northern states.
The truth about Civil Rights was that it was not a Democrat/Republican issue it was a North/South issue. Since the "Solid South" was mostly Democrat there were more Democrats opposed. Southern Republicans also opposed Civil rights.
The truth also is that once Democratic President LBJ signed the legislation, Souther Democrats became todays Red State Republicans
And thats the truth
Yes it is....but every once in a while, people like the OP and the Clerk will try to slip in their falsehoods, hoping no one is paying attention.
Sure thing, we are to believe that racist got mad at their party that barely supported civil rights and joined the party that overwhelmingly supported civil rights. You guys crack me up.
"The Republican Party was not so badly split as the Democrats by the civil rights issue. Only one Republican senator participated in the filibuster against the bill. In fact, since 1933, Republicans had a more positive record on civil rights than the Democrats. In the twenty-six major civil rights votes since 1933, a majority of Democrats opposed civil rights legislation in over 80 % of the votes. By contrast, the Republican majority favored civil rights in over 96 % of the votes."
CongressLink: [Congress: The Basics - Lawmaking] Civil Rights: Major Features of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
And when a Democrat President signed the Civil Rights Bill...Southern Democrats abandoned their party in droves. Nixon and the RNC membership welcomed them with open arms.
Once again explain the logic in why a racist would leave a party that only supported the Civil Rights bill by 60 percent for a party that supported the same bill by 80 percent?
Unfortunately people from both parties have been playing the race card in politics for a long time.
But, I believe there is only one member of Congress with a known history as a KKK leader. Which party does he belong to? Which party has all of the race baiting extortionists?
FWIW in 1968 Wallace got a LOT of votes in supposedly liberal Northern states, too.
