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Originally Posted by StormanNorman
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 |
I never said the Democrats were more racist than the Republicans or anything along those lines. I have
consistently said that there are racists in both parties, but I am not buying that whole Dixiecrat spiel. That may be true for some of them, but not for people like Al Gore Sr. and Robert Byrd, who is
still in the Senate. It also does not explain things like JFK voting against civil rights when his party did not introduce it - and he is most definately not a southernor. Seems that political issues were also taken into consideration and often outweighed the civil rights issue.
Not to mention that recent comments about Indians by people like Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden had nothing to do with southern racism. There are plenty of other comments we can find on both sides of the aisle. That is my position. I was arguing with someone who felt that the Republicans as a whole was a racist party and that the Democrats were not. To me, that is a foolhardy statement to lump all people in a party together on a issue such as this.