Bfgrn
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Bullshit article with bogus quotes. And you right wingers are full of shit.
HERE is what conservatives thought about civil rights in 1957...
William F. Buckley National Review editorial in 1957:
"The central question that emerges and it is not a parliamentary question or a question that is answered by merely consulting a catalog of the rights of American citizens, born Equal is whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas in which it does not predominate numerically? The sobering answer is Yes the White community is so entitled because, for the time being, it is the advanced race."
For most of the past 70 years or so conservatives have opposed the demands for equal respect and equal rights by blacks, women, and gay people. Then, once any particular battle is over, and the conservative position has been decisively defeated, conservatives accept the new status quo and deny that they were ever on the other side.
Conservatives like Buckley and Goldwater opposed Civil Right on the Principle that it was unnecessary; the only thing preventing blacks from advancing was the racist, sadistic, vile, descendants of slave owners in the Democrat Party.
BUT BUT BUT Frank...you claim in 1957 Ike and the Republicans were for civil rights and Johnson and the Democrats were against it...