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You always here this arguments among conservatives. Yes, there were more Republicans who voted for the Civil Rights Act, but the divide had nothing to do with party affiliation. It was more on the basis of north vs south. It was a regional divide, not partisan divide.
You always here this arguments among conservatives. Yes, there were more Republicans who voted for the Civil Rights Act, but the divide had nothing to do with party affiliation. It was more on the basis of north vs south. It was a regional divide, not partisan divide.
Yes it was north/south, thank you. I've been saying that for a long time and often felt like a voice in the wilderness. If I remember the numbers correctly around 90% of the north voted yes and only 10% of the south did. And a little bit of trivia about political courage, the southerners who voted yes were all Democrats. In fact if you break it down north south in both cases, northern and southern, the Democrats voted for it with the higher majority than the Republicans
it doesn't matter if it was republicans that voted more for the CRA. The republicans party of the 60's is not the party of today. If the GOP of today were voting, they would have voted against it.
Even if Republicans did support civil rights back in the 1960s, what does it say about the party when they have to reach back 50 years to find something to brag about?
Republicans freed the slaves and Republicans fought for the Civil Rights Act.
Like or not that's the facts.
Why do you care ? The minorities have all gone to the Dem party.
CONSERVATIVES were against both. The fact that Republicans stopped being liberal in the early 20th century and finally became fully right wing during the great realignment seems to have escaped you. The current party is most certainly anti-civil rights and has been since 1968 at least.
On page 7 he speaks on Automation and Unemployment. In it he proposed a "Bill of Rights for the Disadvantaged."
In it he says:
Quote:
A Bill of Rights for the Disadvantaged would immediately transform the conditions of Negro life. The most profound alteration would not reside so much in the specific grants as in the basic psychological and motivational transformation of the Negro. I would challenge skeptics to give such a bold new approach a test for the next decade. I contend that the decline in school dropouts, family breakups, crime rates, illegitimacy, swollen relief rolls and other social evils would stagger the imagination.
I'd say that prophecy was a complete and utter failure and that central planning and a "Bill of Rights for the Disadvantaged" (whatever that is) completely failed in the form of the grotesque Society.
Of course opponents will argue that we just didn't throw enough money (that we don't have) at the problem.
It's true that AA's were disenfranchised for centuries. To that there should be an expectation that there is a learning curve and there should have been some help. The help that was given has been completely counterproductive and it has left minorities, especially AA's, completely reliant on government for their future. It wasn't a hand-up it was a hand-out and they've returned for decades on end expecting the handout.
I no longer think MLK Jr. was a Republican (and only thought so because of his numerous proclimations from his family members). It's very obvious of his rants against Goldwater that he was more apolitical than anything. He took the side of people that were most willing to help his (my) people out. However, it's come back to haunt him and it hasn't been at all what he would have expected by his own predictions.
It was the liberals who fought for the Civil Rights act
By god it must be a miracle that you figured out how to post without bolding your comments.
Liberals and southern republicans to be exact. The ones that fought against it were southern conservatives and southern democrats.
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