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The Big Bad Wolf.
Reality called, it would like to know if you would like to meet for lunch sometime. It misses you.
Nearly stopped, is that like saying you nearly made a valid point once?
Johnson, who wanted the bill passed as soon as possible, ensured that the bill would be quickly considered by the Senate. Normally, the bill would have been referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Senator James O. Eastland, Democrat from Mississippi. Given Eastland's firm opposition, it seemed impossible that the bill would reach the Senate floor. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield took a novel approach to prevent the bill from being relegated to Judiciary Committee limbo. Having initially waived a second reading of the bill, which would have led to it being immediately referred to Judiciary, Mansfield gave the bill a second reading on February 26, 1964, and then proposed, in the absence of precedent for instances when a second reading did not immediately follow the first, that the bill bypass the Judiciary Committee and immediately be sent to the Senate floor for debate.
When the bill came before the full Senate for debate on March 30, 1964, the "Southern Bloc" of 18 southern Democratic Senators and one Republican Senator led by Richard Russell (D-GA) launched a filibuster to prevent its passage.[14] Said Russell: "We will resist to the bitter end any measure or any movement which would have a tendency to bring about social equality and intermingling and amalgamation of the races in our (Southern) states."[15]
Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
And?
What part of "conservatives tried to stop the bill" aren't you getting?
The Democrat/Republican dynamic was vastly different before the 1960s.
George Wallace, Strum Thurmond, Ronald Reagan, and many other conservatives were once Democrats.
Just recently? Rand Paul said he would have removed the part of the civil rights act that compelled private businesses to be colorblind.
That was the whole foundation of the act. It started at a Woolworth's lunch counter.
Just because you don't like the disgusting history of your party doesn't give you the right to change it.
George Wallace lived and died a DEMOCRAT.
You would have voted for George Wallace.
True dat!