JakeStarkey
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That is no excuse, and the Dems permitted the GOP to vote with the majority to pass the Bill.cellblock mumbles "all major civil rights legislation that the mid-1960s was passed with Republican votes and Democrat opposition"
(1) when in fact the southern GOP had greater opposition to civil rights in the sixties than the southern Democrats.
(2) the GOP presidential candidate in 1964 opposed and voted against civil rights legislation,
(3) the Democratic presidential candidate who won that year had signed the CRA that year and would sign the Voting Act the following year.
/---- Dems led by Al Gore Sr. filibustered the CRA and VRA. The GOP got them passed.