sure they had some but were heavily outnumbered by the southern states who relied on the blacks to do all the work while the plantation owners sat back drinking hot toddies etc etcNorthern states also had slaves.90% of white voters in the deep south vote republican Which were those slave states again??Nope. AA was designed to get those discriminated against a way into the game, and it worked. Society is much less racist now and that is because there are very few of these still around:Is the same thing as fairness.
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Don't be silly.
You know very well it was a way to maintain power.
The Democrat Party was always the standard bearer for slavery, segregation, and second-class citizenship.
Pick up Caro's biography of LBJ....the author of 'affirmative action'....
Prior to 1957, LBJ “had never supported civil rights legislation- any civil rights legislation. In the Senate and House alike, his record was an unbroken one of votes against every civil rights bill that had ever come to a vote: against voting rights bills; against bills that would have struck at job discrimination and at segregation in other areas of American life; even against bills that would have protected blacks from lynching.” Robert Caro, “Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, vol.3,” p. xv.
So, what happened? An epiphany? The cynic in me says it was something else….