Dr Martin Luther King saved this country

[depotoo]

I believe Missouri as well?

Finally to the OP. MLK did not save this country. He merely accelerated what would have happened naturally and peacefully. History will judge whether that was good or bad.

It was not happening naturally. The 13 th amendment was 100 years before

As to "peacefully"
Peaceful black protest and rudimentary attempts at integration were met with terrorist attacks

Integration was not good?

The only hold outs were your party

There were Republicans in the south who also supported Jim Crow
Democrats from the north who were freedom riders

It was a north/south is
+sue

nope, it was strictly on party lines. northern democrats were slave owners. there were more slaves in Illinois than in Alabama. the northern democrats also enslaved thousands of white irish. the dems were the slave traders and paid black slavers in Africa for their captives.

 

[Redfish]

I grew up in the 60's and saw most of the Civil Rights movement. Like most Americans, I was outraged at the assasination of Dr King. When we talked about giving him a national holiday ten years later, I looked at it as a form of appeasement for outraged blacks.....a way of giving them their own holiday to quiet them down.

In reading about the Civil Rights movement in subsequent years, I realized what a great American Dr King was. Black Americans came back after WWII to find that despite fighting and dying in defense of their country, they were still treated like lesser Americans. They found they were not allowed to mingle with whites, were not welcome in much of the country they had fought for. Blacks were considered to be dirty, diseased and sub human. Some whites were outraged at the thought of eating with blacks, using the same restrooms, riding on public transportation with them.

As black Americans began to protest their treatment in their own country they were met with harsh resistance from both white militants and governments who swore to support inequal treatment. Blacks were denied the right to vote, to freely associate, rights to a fair trial. Those who resisted were met with terrorist attacks. Lynchings, bombings, arrest and assasination of their leaders.

Most of us faced with such horrific treatment in our own homeland would fight violence with violence. How would you react if someone spat on your child for trying to go to school?

When the courts did not protect blacks, armed conflict would seem a reasonable response. Dr King knew violence would only result in more violence against you. He modeled the Civil Rights movement around Gandhis peaceful resistance theories. By using cameras to document the treatment of peaceful protestors he saved this country from an armed violent protest that would have destroyed this country.


America returned from WWII as an economic and military superpower. But a country that does not treat its citizens with respect is not a moral superpower. By changing the way we treat our citizens, Dr King, more importantly, saved our soul. By forcing us to look in a mirror and see who we really are, he enabled us to become a truly great country.

On this Martin Luther King day I hope everyone can reflect on what a great American he was and how much better off we all are

And In one fell swoop Obama and the black caucus destroyed all his hard work.

The election of the Great Obama was a cause of celebration for all blacks.
Most will tell you it was their proudest day

MLK would have been the proudest

And he set race relations back to the 60's.

Only from the point where racists who had been in hiding from the 70 s came out of the woodwork once a black man was elected

The Great Obama received no cooperation from Conservatives

"the great Obama" ???????????? are you a human being?

 

[Faun]

It was not happening naturally. The 13 th amendment was 100 years before

As to "peacefully"
Peaceful black protest and rudimentary attempts at integration were met with terrorist attacks

Integration was not good?

The only hold outs were your party

There were Republicans in the south who also supported Jim Crow
Democrats from the north who were freedom riders

It was a north/south issue

No there wasn't. Republicans freed the slaves and democrats have spent the next 200 plus years putting them back in ghetto slave pens.

rightwinger is right. The separation was north/south, not Republican/Democrat. Of the 12 Republicans in Congress in the south, not one voted for the Civil Rights Act...

... whereas more Democrats in the north voted in favor of it than did Republicans.

And percentage-wise when broken down by north/south, a larger percentage of northern Democrats (95%) voted for it than did northern Republicans (85%); just like in the south where a larger percentage of southern Democrats (8%) voted for it than did southern Republicans (0%).

Sad you feel the need to rewrite history . own up to it. Democrats are the original american hate group

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LOL

I rewrote nothing. I referenced the actual roll call.

 

[rightwinger]

Finally to the OP. MLK did not save this country. He merely accelerated what would have happened naturally and peacefully. History will judge whether that was good or bad.

It was not happening naturally. The 13 th amendment was 100 years before

As to "peacefully"
Peaceful black protest and rudimentary attempts at integration were met with terrorist attacks

Integration was not good?

The only hold outs were your party

There were Republicans in the south who also supported Jim Crow
Democrats from the north who were freedom riders

It was a north/south is
+sue

nope, it was strictly on party lines. northern democrats were slave owners. there were more slaves in Illinois than in Alabama. the northern democrats also enslaved thousands of white irish. the dems were the slave traders and paid black slavers in Africa for their captives.

No

It was strictly on North/ South lines

You are lying. Slave trading from Africa was banned in 1805. The Democratic Party was not formed until 1830

No Irish were ever enslaved in the United States

 

[BlueGin]

I grew up in the 60's and saw most of the Civil Rights movement. Like most Americans, I was outraged at the assasination of Dr King. When we talked about giving him a national holiday ten years later, I looked at it as a form of appeasement for outraged blacks.....a way of giving them their own holiday to quiet them down.

In reading about the Civil Rights movement in subsequent years, I realized what a great American Dr King was. Black Americans came back after WWII to find that despite fighting and dying in defense of their country, they were still treated like lesser Americans. They found they were not allowed to mingle with whites, were not welcome in much of the country they had fought for. Blacks were considered to be dirty, diseased and sub human. Some whites were outraged at the thought of eating with blacks, using the same restrooms, riding on public transportation with them.

As black Americans began to protest their treatment in their own country they were met with harsh resistance from both white militants and governments who swore to support inequal treatment. Blacks were denied the right to vote, to freely associate, rights to a fair trial. Those who resisted were met with terrorist attacks. Lynchings, bombings, arrest and assasination of their leaders.

Most of us faced with such horrific treatment in our own homeland would fight violence with violence. How would you react if someone spat on your child for trying to go to school?

When the courts did not protect blacks, armed conflict would seem a reasonable response. Dr King knew violence would only result in more violence against you. He modeled the Civil Rights movement around Gandhis peaceful resistance theories. By using cameras to document the treatment of peaceful protestors he saved this country from an armed violent protest that would have destroyed this country.


America returned from WWII as an economic and military superpower. But a country that does not treat its citizens with respect is not a moral superpower. By changing the way we treat our citizens, Dr King, more importantly, saved our soul. By forcing us to look in a mirror and see who we really are, he enabled us to become a truly great country.

On this Martin Luther King day I hope everyone can reflect on what a great American he was and how much better off we all are

And In one fell swoop Obama and the black caucus destroyed all his hard work.

The election of the Great Obama was a cause of celebration for all blacks.
Most will tell you it was their proudest day

MLK would have been the proudest

And he set race relations back to the 60's.

Only from the point where racists who had been in hiding from the 70 s came out of the woodwork once a black man was elected

The Great Obama received no cooperation from Conservatives

Sorry to disappoint you kook liberals...but folks arent racist just because they don't agree with you.

 

[Redfish]

The only hold outs were your party

There were Republicans in the south who also supported Jim Crow
Democrats from the north who were freedom riders

It was a north/south issue

No there wasn't. Republicans freed the slaves and democrats have spent the next 200 plus years putting them back in ghetto slave pens.

Yet, Republicans cannot point to a single piece of legislation in the last 50 years where they helped blacks or any other minority

right, the civil rights act of 1965 was more than 50 years ago. and dems have been trying to ignore it ever since.

They have not only supported it. They extended civil rights through affirmative action, women's rights and gay rights

replacing one form or racism with another is not progress.

women have always had equal rights, murder is not a right

gays have always had equal rights, marriage is not a right.

 

[Redfish]

Finally to the OP. MLK did not save this country. He merely accelerated what would have happened naturally and peacefully. History will judge whether that was good or bad.

It was not happening naturally. The 13 th amendment was 100 years before

As to "peacefully"
Peaceful black protest and rudimentary attempts at integration were met with terrorist attacks

Integration was not good?

The only hold outs were your party

There were Republicans in the south who also supported Jim Crow
Democrats from the north who were freedom riders

It was a north/south is
+sue

nope, it was strictly on party lines. northern democrats were slave owners. there were more slaves in Illinois than in Alabama. the northern democrats also enslaved thousands of white irish. the dems were the slave traders and paid black slavers in Africa for their captives.

No

It was strictly on North/ South lines

You are lying. Slave trading from Africa was banned in 1805. The Democratic Party was not formed until 1830

No Irish were ever enslaved in the United States

once again, are you a human being? or some kind of talking point repeating machine?

 

[Faun]

There were Republicans in the south who also supported Jim Crow
Democrats from the north who were freedom riders

It was a north/south issue

No there wasn't. Republicans freed the slaves and democrats have spent the next 200 plus years putting them back in ghetto slave pens.

Yet, Republicans cannot point to a single piece of legislation in the last 50 years where they helped blacks or any other minority

Hold on a minute....we just came off of eight long grueling years with King Negro at the helm...how’d that workout for his Nigerian “Brothas”?

Pretty good, black unemployment came down 39% during his administration.

Thats a lie it stayed the highest ever until this president

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Do you even know you're fucking insane?

There are actual BLS figures starting in 1972, even if you're too ignorant to know what they are.

The highest ever, did not even occur under Obama, as you idiotically and falsely assert. The highest ever (really since 1972 when the BLS started tracking black unemployment) occurred in January, 1983, while Reagan was president; when it peaked at 21.2%.

Under Obama, black unemployment was 12.7% and rising when he became president ... peaked at 16.8% in March, 2010 ... and dropped to 7.8% during his last month in office.

BLS: (Seas) Unemployment Rate - Black or African American

So despite your outlandish lie that black unemployment "stayed the highest until this president," the truth is, it fell from 12.7% to 7.8% under Obama, a 39% decrease. Under Trump so far, who inherited that rate at 7.8% and falling, it has continued to drop to 6.8%, a 13% drop.

 

[Faun]

A conservative court approved Roe V Wade

It wasnt conservative if it gave away state rights .

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A conservative court overwhelmingly supported it

No it didnt

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7-2

Nope not conservative.

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Aye

• William O. Douglas (Roosevelt)
• William J. Brennan (Eisenhower)
• Potter Stewart (Eisenhower)
• Thurgood Marshall (Johnson)
• Warren E. Burger (Nixon)
• Harry Blackmun (Nixon)
• Lewis Franklin Powell Jr. (Nixon)

Nay

• Byron White (Kennedy)
• William Rehnquist (Nixon)

 

[rightwinger]

I grew up in the 60's and saw most of the Civil Rights movement. Like most Americans, I was outraged at the assasination of Dr King. When we talked about giving him a national holiday ten years later, I looked at it as a form of appeasement for outraged blacks.....a way of giving them their own holiday to quiet them down.

In reading about the Civil Rights movement in subsequent years, I realized what a great American Dr King was. Black Americans came back after WWII to find that despite fighting and dying in defense of their country, they were still treated like lesser Americans. They found they were not allowed to mingle with whites, were not welcome in much of the country they had fought for. Blacks were considered to be dirty, diseased and sub human. Some whites were outraged at the thought of eating with blacks, using the same restrooms, riding on public transportation with them.

As black Americans began to protest their treatment in their own country they were met with harsh resistance from both white militants and governments who swore to support inequal treatment. Blacks were denied the right to vote, to freely associate, rights to a fair trial. Those who resisted were met with terrorist attacks. Lynchings, bombings, arrest and assasination of their leaders.

Most of us faced with such horrific treatment in our own homeland would fight violence with violence. How would you react if someone spat on your child for trying to go to school?

When the courts did not protect blacks, armed conflict would seem a reasonable response. Dr King knew violence would only result in more violence against you. He modeled the Civil Rights movement around Gandhis peaceful resistance theories. By using cameras to document the treatment of peaceful protestors he saved this country from an armed violent protest that would have destroyed this country.


America returned from WWII as an economic and military superpower. But a country that does not treat its citizens with respect is not a moral superpower. By changing the way we treat our citizens, Dr King, more importantly, saved our soul. By forcing us to look in a mirror and see who we really are, he enabled us to become a truly great country.

On this Martin Luther King day I hope everyone can reflect on what a great American he was and how much better off we all are

And In one fell swoop Obama and the black caucus destroyed all his hard work.

The election of the Great Obama was a cause of celebration for all blacks.
Most will tell you it was their proudest day

MLK would have been the proudest

And he set race relations back to the 60's.

Only from the point where racists who had been in hiding from the 70 s came out of the woodwork once a black man was elected

The Great Obama received no cooperation from Conservatives

Sorry to disappoint you kook liberals...but folks arent racist just because they don't agree with you.

No ...you are not racist for disagreeing with Obama

But the racists responded to the insult of Obama by electing Trump

 

[rightwinger]

It wasnt conservative if it gave away state rights .

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A conservative court overwhelmingly supported it

No it didnt

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7-2

Nope not conservative.

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Aye

• William O. Douglas (Roosevelt)
• William J. Brennan (Eisenhower)
• Potter Stewart (Eisenhower)
• Thurgood Marshall (Johnson)
• Warren E. Burger (Nixon)
• Harry Blackmun (Nixon)
• Lewis Franklin Powell Jr. (Nixon)

Nay

• Byron White (Kennedy)
• William Rehnquist (Nixon)

Five conservative judges voted for Roe v Wade

Abortion is a conservative initiative

 

[rightwinger]

It was not happening naturally. The 13 th amendment was 100 years before

As to "peacefully"
Peaceful black protest and rudimentary attempts at integration were met with terrorist attacks

Integration was not good?

The only hold outs were your party

There were Republicans in the south who also supported Jim Crow
Democrats from the north who were freedom riders

It was a north/south is
+sue

nope, it was strictly on party lines. northern democrats were slave owners. there were more slaves in Illinois than in Alabama. the northern democrats also enslaved thousands of white irish. the dems were the slave traders and paid black slavers in Africa for their captives.

No

It was strictly on North/ South lines

You are lying. Slave trading from Africa was banned in 1805. The Democratic Party was not formed until 1830

No Irish were ever enslaved in the United States

once again, are you a human being? or some kind of talking point repeating machine?

American History is not a talking point

 

[hunarcy]

No there wasn't. Republicans freed the slaves and democrats have spent the next 200 plus years putting them back in ghetto slave pens.

Yet, Republicans cannot point to a single piece of legislation in the last 50 years where they helped blacks or any other minority

Really? They emancipated them and They are the only reason the civil rights law was passed. Perhaps you should actually read history instead of making shit up.

Again you are over 50 years ago

Civil Rights was a product of northern Democrats and a Democratic president

Which one? The first one, the Civil Rights Act of 1957 was signed by Dwight Eisenhower (Republican) after it was proposed by Herbert Brownnell (Republican). The Act marked the first occasion since Reconstruction that the federal government undertook significant legislative action to protect civil rights.

The second one, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was written by Senators Hubert Humphrey (D-MN) and Everett Dirksen (R-IL), and Representatives Emanuel Celler (D-NY), and William McCulloch (R-OH) and signed by Lyndon Johnson (Democrat). It would not have passed without 80% support of the Republicans in Congress.

Your attempt to re-write history to favor the Democrats fails.

Would not have passed without Democrats

Both Republicans and Democrats in the south voted against it
Teddy Roosevelt on Conservatives vs. Liberals
However, without the strong support and politicking of LBJ, it would have died in committee.

The 1964 presidential nominee for Republicans voted against it

The Democrats controlled the House and Senate. You can try to lie and vilify Republicans, but the fact is that the largest block of "no" votes were Southern Democrats and you KNOW that. In the House, the measure passed with 78 percent of Democrats backing it and 82 percent of Republicans backing it. In the Senate, 73 percent of Democrats and 94 percent of Republicans supported the bill.

If you have to lie to make your point, you don't really have a point.

 

[Faun]

Finally to the OP. MLK did not save this country. He merely accelerated what would have happened naturally and peacefully. History will judge whether that was good or bad.

It was not happening naturally. The 13 th amendment was 100 years before

As to "peacefully"
Peaceful black protest and rudimentary attempts at integration were met with terrorist attacks

Integration was not good?

The only hold outs were your party

There were Republicans in the south who also supported Jim Crow
Democrats from the north who were freedom riders

It was a north/south is
+sue

nope, it was strictly on party lines. northern democrats were slave owners. there were more slaves in Illinois than in Alabama. the northern democrats also enslaved thousands of white irish. the dems were the slave traders and paid black slavers in Africa for their captives.

It was not strictly along party lines, ya lyin' rightard.

189 of 198 (95%) of Democrats in the north voted for it.

In the south, only 7% of Congress voted for it, which included all 12 southern Republicans, none of whom voted in favor of it.

All total, in favor of it:

Democrat: 198 (64%)
Republican: 164 (80%)

North: 353 (90%)
South: 9 (7%)

353 to 9 -- It absolutely was a north/south thing.

 

[rightwinger]

Yet, Republicans cannot point to a single piece of legislation in the last 50 years where they helped blacks or any other minority

Really? They emancipated them and They are the only reason the civil rights law was passed. Perhaps you should actually read history instead of making shit up.

Again you are over 50 years ago

Civil Rights was a product of northern Democrats and a Democratic president

Which one? The first one, the Civil Rights Act of 1957 was signed by Dwight Eisenhower (Republican) after it was proposed by Herbert Brownnell (Republican). The Act marked the first occasion since Reconstruction that the federal government undertook significant legislative action to protect civil rights.

The second one, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was written by Senators Hubert Humphrey (D-MN) and Everett Dirksen (R-IL), and Representatives Emanuel Celler (D-NY), and William McCulloch (R-OH) and signed by Lyndon Johnson (Democrat). It would not have passed without 80% support of the Republicans in Congress.

Your attempt to re-write history to favor the Democrats fails.

Would not have passed without Democrats

Both Republicans and Democrats in the south voted against it
Teddy Roosevelt on Conservatives vs. Liberals
However, without the strong support and politicking of LBJ, it would have died in committee.

The 1964 presidential nominee for Republicans voted against it

The Democrats controlled the House and Senate. You can try to lie and vilify Republicans, but the fact is that the largest block of "no" votes were Southern Democrats and you KNOW that. In the House, the measure passed with 78 percent of Democrats backing it and 82 percent of Republicans backing it. In the Senate, 73 percent of Democrats and 94 percent of Republicans supported the bill.

If you have to lie to make your point, you don't really have a point.

Anyone with any sense looking at that vote would see a definitive North-South vote

Only those looking for partisan propaganda would claim it was a Democratic-Republican issue

 

[Faun]

There were Republicans in the south who also supported Jim Crow
Democrats from the north who were freedom riders

It was a north/south issue

No there wasn't. Republicans freed the slaves and democrats have spent the next 200 plus years putting them back in ghetto slave pens.

Yet, Republicans cannot point to a single piece of legislation in the last 50 years where they helped blacks or any other minority

right, the civil rights act of 1965 was more than 50 years ago. and dems have been trying to ignore it ever since.

They have not only supported it. They extended civil rights through affirmative action, women's rights and gay rights

replacing one form or racism with another is not progress.

women have always had equal rights, murder is not a right

gays have always had equal rights, marriage is not a right.

Imbecile...

14 Supreme Court Cases: Marriage is a Fundamental Right

 

[hunarcy]

And In one fell swoop Obama and the black caucus destroyed all his hard work.

The election of the Great Obama was a cause of celebration for all blacks.
Most will tell you it was their proudest day

MLK would have been the proudest

And he set race relations back to the 60's.

Only from the point where racists who had been in hiding from the 70 s came out of the woodwork once a black man was elected

The Great Obama received no cooperation from Conservatives

Sorry to disappoint you kook liberals...but folks arent racist just because they don't agree with you.

No ...you are not racist for disagreeing with Obama

But the racists responded to the insult of Obama by electing Trump

No, rational Americans voted against the Corporate Whore whose corruption fouled the Democratic Party so thoroughly that Trump was elected I expect that he'll be a one term President, assuming that Democrats don't nominate another unelectable candidate. At least 12% of Bernie voters voted against Clinton.

 

[hunarcy]

Really? They emancipated them and They are the only reason the civil rights law was passed. Perhaps you should actually read history instead of making shit up.

Again you are over 50 years ago

Civil Rights was a product of northern Democrats and a Democratic president

Which one? The first one, the Civil Rights Act of 1957 was signed by Dwight Eisenhower (Republican) after it was proposed by Herbert Brownnell (Republican). The Act marked the first occasion since Reconstruction that the federal government undertook significant legislative action to protect civil rights.

The second one, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was written by Senators Hubert Humphrey (D-MN) and Everett Dirksen (R-IL), and Representatives Emanuel Celler (D-NY), and William McCulloch (R-OH) and signed by Lyndon Johnson (Democrat). It would not have passed without 80% support of the Republicans in Congress.

Your attempt to re-write history to favor the Democrats fails.

Would not have passed without Democrats

Both Republicans and Democrats in the south voted against it
Teddy Roosevelt on Conservatives vs. Liberals
However, without the strong support and politicking of LBJ, it would have died in committee.

The 1964 presidential nominee for Republicans voted against it

The Democrats controlled the House and Senate. You can try to lie and vilify Republicans, but the fact is that the largest block of "no" votes were Southern Democrats and you KNOW that. In the House, the measure passed with 78 percent of Democrats backing it and 82 percent of Republicans backing it. In the Senate, 73 percent of Democrats and 94 percent of Republicans supported the bill.

If you have to lie to make your point, you don't really have a point.

Anyone with any sense looking at that vote would see a definitive North-South vote

Only those looking for partisan propaganda would claim it was a Democratic-Republican issue

But, your original statement was a condemnation of Republicans and claimed sole credit for Democrats. Now, you are "evolving" because you have been shown to be...inaccurate.

 

[rightwinger]

Again you are over 50 years ago

Civil Rights was a product of northern Democrats and a Democratic president

Which one? The first one, the Civil Rights Act of 1957 was signed by Dwight Eisenhower (Republican) after it was proposed by Herbert Brownnell (Republican). The Act marked the first occasion since Reconstruction that the federal government undertook significant legislative action to protect civil rights.

The second one, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was written by Senators Hubert Humphrey (D-MN) and Everett Dirksen (R-IL), and Representatives Emanuel Celler (D-NY), and William McCulloch (R-OH) and signed by Lyndon Johnson (Democrat). It would not have passed without 80% support of the Republicans in Congress.

Your attempt to re-write history to favor the Democrats fails.

Would not have passed without Democrats

Both Republicans and Democrats in the south voted against it
Teddy Roosevelt on Conservatives vs. Liberals
However, without the strong support and politicking of LBJ, it would have died in committee.

The 1964 presidential nominee for Republicans voted against it

The Democrats controlled the House and Senate. You can try to lie and vilify Republicans, but the fact is that the largest block of "no" votes were Southern Democrats and you KNOW that. In the House, the measure passed with 78 percent of Democrats backing it and 82 percent of Republicans backing it. In the Senate, 73 percent of Democrats and 94 percent of Republicans supported the bill.

If you have to lie to make your point, you don't really have a point.

Anyone with any sense looking at that vote would see a definitive North-South vote

Only those looking for partisan propaganda would claim it was a Democratic-Republican issue

But, your original statement was a condemnation of Republicans and claimed sole credit for Democrats. Now, you are "evolving" because you have been shown to be...inaccurate.

Link where I claimed sole credit

 

[Faun]

Yet, Republicans cannot point to a single piece of legislation in the last 50 years where they helped blacks or any other minority

Really? They emancipated them and They are the only reason the civil rights law was passed. Perhaps you should actually read history instead of making shit up.

Again you are over 50 years ago

Civil Rights was a product of northern Democrats and a Democratic president

Which one? The first one, the Civil Rights Act of 1957 was signed by Dwight Eisenhower (Republican) after it was proposed by Herbert Brownnell (Republican). The Act marked the first occasion since Reconstruction that the federal government undertook significant legislative action to protect civil rights.

The second one, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was written by Senators Hubert Humphrey (D-MN) and Everett Dirksen (R-IL), and Representatives Emanuel Celler (D-NY), and William McCulloch (R-OH) and signed by Lyndon Johnson (Democrat). It would not have passed without 80% support of the Republicans in Congress.

Your attempt to re-write history to favor the Democrats fails.

Would not have passed without Democrats

Both Republicans and Democrats in the south voted against it
Teddy Roosevelt on Conservatives vs. Liberals
However, without the strong support and politicking of LBJ, it would have died in committee.

The 1964 presidential nominee for Republicans voted against it

The Democrats controlled the House and Senate. You can try to lie and vilify Republicans, but the fact is that the largest block of "no" votes were Southern Democrats and you KNOW that. In the House, the measure passed with 78 percent of Democrats backing it and 82 percent of Republicans backing it. In the Senate, 73 percent of Democrats and 94 percent of Republicans supported the bill.

If you have to lie to make your point, you don't really have a point.

In the south, 92% of Democrats (112) voted against along with 100% of Republicans (12).

All total by north/south

Aye

North: 353 (90%)
South: 9 (7%)

Nay

North: 38 (10%)
South: 115 (93%)

The split was north/south, not Republican/Democrat.