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Originally Posted by Dom1
Excellent, we are getting somewhere. Now answer what party has tried to block blacks from voting. Don't use the Dixiecrat argument, becasue Al Gore Sr. was not a Dixiecrat, nor was/is Robert Byrd. They both attempted a filibuster on the 1964 Civil Rights Act which a Republican Senator from Illinois broke up. Not to mention the watering down of the first Civil Rights Act (1957, which was followed by 1960 - both introduced by Republicans) by LBJ and JFK actually voting against the act. Was it because they didn't like the idea of blacks having the civil rights act? Probably not. They probably were in favor of it, just not enough to actually let the Republicans pass it and split up their Democratic party. Evidently politics trumped civil rights, or else you can give mme another explanation.
What civil rights have the Republicans taken from blacks?
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Hi Dom1,
I agree with everything you said, but let's be honest....it was the Southerners that were against civil rights, not the Democrats and not the Republicans. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that Southerners had a monopoly on racism, but, if you look at the civil rights voting recordings, they certainly led the charge against it. And, of course, most Southerners in the 1960s were Democrats....but, that is not true anymore. Here is a look at the voting for the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964