Southern Strategy

[JakeStarkey]

I am a Republican, a life long Republican. I am not a "mainstream" Republican as some on this board like to describe themselves. I have never voted for a democrat President.

What I say about what you ascribe to me is that you are a big fat liar, just like all democrats that want to cover their racist past. Assuming Welfare is just a black issue exposes the liberal for what they are racist through and through. There ain't a subject that comes up that democrats don't inject their new brand of racism.

Yes, dems have a racist past but have befriended minorities and women since the 1950s.

Welfare "is not a black issue", for far more whites receive assistance than blacks.

Yes, there is racism among the Dems, but to ignore the Southern Strategy and to refuse to reach out to minorities in an honest and significant way will keep our GOP in the minority for the foreseeable future.

Freewill, I am assuming you are unlike Buckeye and Lonestar when it comes to matters of race. I certainly hope so.

Reconsider your position.

 

[Pheonixops]

Watching conservatives try to convince themselves that they're not racist is amusing.

The hostile GOP rank & file is the reason blacks and hispanics vote for Democrats. You hate them, and they know it.

I wouldn't say it's all or most (I know you didn't say such) republicans/conservatives but when one reads the posts and sees the "narratives" that not a few Republicans/conservatives present it's not hard to come to the conclusion that there is a good size base there, that has racial animosity. I will also add that there are more numbers in representation (Congressmen, judges, etc.) for minorities in the Democrat party. I would think that the above fact may be another reason they vote Democrat by large numbers.
One can see how the OP and some of his cohorts tend to focus on "the Blacks' when it comes to voting as a majority for the Democrat party. They tend to leave out the fact that 70+ percent of Jewish people, Hispanics, and Asians voted for President Obama and probably vote Democrat as well.

What do jews asians muslims hindus and a anyone have for that matter....start your own thread if you want to talk about that...

LOL. I addressed your bogus assertions, I guess you simply have a problem with facts.

 

[velvtacheeze]

Damn thought my other ones posted first

So when did blacks switch and why????? I say it was during the Great Depression.....not the late 60s....and it was because of government programs, NOT civil rights......


well all be damned

FactCheck.org : Blacks and the Democratic Party

The election of Roosevelt in 1932 marked the beginning of a change. He got 71 percent of the black vote for president in 1936 and did nearly that well in the next two elections, according to historical figures kept by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. But even then, the number of blacks identifying themselves as Republicans was about the same as the number who thought of themselves as Democrats

Even after that, Republican nominees continued to get a large slice of the black vote for several elections. Dwight D. Eisenhower got 39 percent in 1956, and Richard Nixon got 32 percent in his narrow loss to John F. Kennedy in 1960

They love that government money....it was government money and not civil rights...well shit, this isnt taught in schools......it was all the southern strategey.......oooops it wasnt

Watching conservatives try to convince themselves that they're not racist is amusing.

The hostile GOP rank & file is the reason blacks and hispanics vote for Democrats. You hate them, and they know it.

If true..why did blacks back roosevelt.... t hose racist whites did too....hmmmmm

FDR allowed southern states to deny blacks any benefit from the New Deal. He decided to not risk splitting the Democratic Party. Later Democrats decided it was worth the risks of upsetting southern whites, and pushed for civil rights laws, welfare laws, and desegregation of schools and the armed forces.

The swing of the white south to the GOP has essentially been a decades-long, pathetic white guy pity party, as they react against losing their unearned privileges.

 

[Flopper]

Read the first post......
Nixon didn't cary them in 68.....LIFELONG DEMOCRAT Wallce did..
In 72 Nixon won everything......except MA
in 76 Carter Won them
In 80 Carter won them
in 84 Reagan won every state (except MN)
in 88 Dukakis got crushed, mainly because he wouldn't defend his wife.....

Dukakis-Bush debate: death penalty - YouTube


That destroyed him....and it was asked by a black man.....DAMMMM ironies everywhere!

in 92 Clinton carried them
in 96 Clinton carried them
In 00 Bush
in 04 Bush
in 08 McCain/Obama


So where was the benefit again?

And all these republicans kept voting for DEMOCRAT state and local politicians....WHY???? Were the democrats like Al Gore racist at the local level, but suddenly became black champions on the national scene????? This is the bs you would HAVE to believe....it's insane

Oh and how many 64 civil rights no democrats became republicans......1 out of .........wait for it......wait for it......21..........1 of 21........wow.....that's a HUGE percentage


you have some republicans that grew up TAUGHT this.....and therefore they apologize......just cuz.......but I never see any details from them...just a general.....I'm sorry if this happened kinda thing

Of course Cartier and Clinton won. They were Southerns. Wallace was a Southern and ran as an independent, not a Democrat. He was a hero of southern segregationist.

Gosh flopper you ought to look things up before you make such statements. He ran 4 times, once as a independent three as a democrat.

Pay attention. The discussion was about democratic presidential candidates who won southern states. Wallace did not run as a democrat when he ran for president, he ran as an independent, actually the American Independent Party.

Southern democrats fought for segregation in the South and were rewarded with election to state and local offices sometimes running as a Republicans but usually as a Democrat. The South almost always voted for Republican presidential candidates beginning in the 1960's, the exception being southern candidates, Cartier, Clinton, and Wallace. Prior to 1960, the South was solidly Democrat. Integration was the game changer.

 

[depotoo]

Yup, the opening of federal jobs in the 1930s to blacks, the beginning of armed forces integration under Truman, the voting and civil rights acts under Johnson, and so forth and so on.

No wonder southern whites begin moving over to the GOP in 1968 and on.

Good job, bucky.

The Congressional Quarterly of June 26, 1964 (p. 1323) recorded that, in the Senate, only 69% of Democrats (46 for, 21 against) voted for the Civil Rights Act as compared to 82% of Republicans (27 for, 6 against). All southern Democratic senators voted against the Act.

In the House of Representatives, 61% of Democrats (152 for, 96 against) voted for the Civil Rights Act; 92 of the 103 southern Democrats voted against it. Among Republicans, 80% (138 for, 34 against) voted for it.


Republican Party Platform of 1960
July 25, 1960

...Civil Rights
This nation was created to give expression, validity and purpose to our spiritual heritage—the supreme worth of the individual. In such a nation—a nation dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal—racial discrimination has no place. It can hardly be reconciled with a Constitution that guarantees equal protection under law to all persons. In a deeper sense, too, it is immoral and unjust. As to those matters within reach of political action and leadership, we pledge ourselves unreservedly to its eradication.

Equality under law promises more than the equal right to vote and transcends mere relief from discrimination by government. It becomes a reality only when all persons have equal opportunity, without distinction of race, religion, color or national origin, to acquire the essentials of life—housing, education and employment. The Republican Party—the party of Abraham Lincoln—from its very beginning has striven to make this promise a reality. It is today, as it was then, unequivocally dedicated to making the greatest amount of progress toward the objective.

We recognize that discrimination is not a problem localized in one area of the country, but rather a problem that must be faced by North and South alike. Nor is discrimination confined to the discrimination against Negroes. Discrimination in many, if not all, areas of the country on the basis of creed or national origin is equally insidious. Further we recognize that in many communities in which a century of custom and tradition must be overcome heartening and commendable progress has been made.

The Republican Party is proud of the civil rights record of the Eisenhower Administration. More progress has been made during the past eight years than in the preceding 80 years. We acted promptly to end discrimination in our nation's capital. Vigorous executive action was taken to complete swiftly the desegregation of the armed forces, veterans' hospitals, navy yards, and other federal establishments.

We supported the position of the Negro school children before the Supreme Court. We believe the Supreme Court school decision should be carried out in accordance with the mandate of the Court.

Although the Democratic-controlled Congress watered them down, the Republican Administration's recommendations resulted in significant and effective civil rights legislation in both 1957 and 1960—the first civil rights statutes to be passed in more than 80 years.

Hundreds of Negroes have already been registered to vote as a result of Department of Justice action, some in counties where Negroes did not vote before. The new law will soon make it possible for thousands and thousands of Negroes previously disenfranchised to vote.

By executive order, a committee for the elimination of discrimination in government employment has been reestablished with broadened authority. Today, nearly one-fourth of all federal employees are Negro.

The President's Committee on Government Contracts, under the chairmanship of Vice President Nixon, has become an impressive force for the elimination of discriminatory employment practices of private companies that do business with the government.

Other important achievements include initial steps toward the elimination of segregation in federally-aided housing; the establishment of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, which enforces federal civil rights laws; and the appointment of the bi-partisan Civil Rights Commission, which has prepared a significant report that lays the groundwork for further legislative action and progress.

The Republican record is a record of progress—not merely promises. Nevertheless, we recognize that much remains to be done.

Each of the following pledges is practical and within realistic reach of accomplishment. They are serious—not cynical—pledge
1. Voting.
We pledge:
Continued vigorous enforcement of the civil rights laws to guarantee the right to vote to all citizens in all areas of the country.

Legislation to provide that the completion of six primary grades in a state accredited school is conclusive evidence of literacy for voting purposes.


2. Public Schools.
We pledge:
The Department of Justice will continue its vigorous support of court orders for school desegregation. Desegregation suits now pending involve at least 39 school districts. Those suits and others already concluded will affect most major cities in which school segregation is being practiced.

It will use the new authority provided by the Civil Rights Act of 1960 to prevent obstruction of court orders.

We will propose legislation to authorize the Attorney General to bring actions for school desegregation in the name of the United States in appropriate cases, as when economic coercion or threat of physical harm is used to deter persons from going to court to establish their rights.

Our continuing support of the President's proposal, to extend federal aid and technical assistance to schools which in good faith attempted to desegregate.

We oppose the pretense of fixing a target date 3 years from now for the mere submission of plans for school desegregation. Slow-moving school districts would construe it as a three-year moratorium during which progress would cease, postponing until 1963 the legal process to enforce compliance. We believe that each of the pending court actions should proceed as the Supreme Court has directed and that in no district should there be any such delay.


3. Employment.
We pledge:
Continued support for legislation to establish a Commission on Equal Job Opportunity to make permanent and to expand with legislative backing the excellent work being performed by the President's Committee on Government Contracts.

Appropriate legislation to end the discriminatory membership practices of some labor union locals, unless such practices are eradicated promptly by the labor unions themselves.

Use of the full-scale review of existing state laws, and of prior proposals for federal legislation, to eliminate discrimination in employment now being conducted by the Civil Rights Commission, for guidance in our objective of developing a Federal-State program in the employment area.

Special consideration of training programs aimed at developing the skills of those now working in marginal agricultural employment so that they can obtain employment in industry, notably in the new industries moving into the South.


4. Housing.
We pledge:
Action to prohibit discrimination in housing constructed with the aid of federal subsidies.


5. Public Facilities and Services.
We pledge:
Removal of any vestige of discrimination in the operation of federal facilities or procedures which may at any time be found.

Opposition to the use of federal funds for the construction of segregated community facilities.

Action to ensure that public transportation and other government authorized services shall be free from segregation.


6. Legislative Procedure.
We pledge:
Our best efforts to change present Rule 22 of the Senate and other appropriate Congressional procedures that often make unattainable proper legislative implementation of constitutional guarantees.

We reaffirm the constitutional right to peaceable assembly to protest discrimination in private business establishments. We applaud the action of the businessmen who have abandoned discriminatory practices in retail establishments, and we urge others to follow their example.

Finally we recognize that civil rights is a responsibility not only of states and localities; it is a national problem and a national responsibility. The federal government should take the initiative in promoting inter-group conferences among those who, in their communities, are earnestly seeking solutions of the complex problems of desegregation—to the end that closed channels of communication may be opened, tensions eased, and a cooperative solution of local problems may be sought.

In summary, we pledge the full use of the power, resources and leadership of the federal government to eliminate discrimination based on race, color, religion or national origin and to encourage understanding and good will among all races and creeds.


Republican Party Platforms: Republican Party Platform of 1960

 

[buckeye45_73]

Yup, the opening of federal jobs in the 1930s to blacks, the beginning of armed forces integration under Truman, the voting and civil rights acts under Johnson, and so forth and so on.

No wonder southern whites begin moving over to the GOP in 1968 and on.

Good job, bucky.

The Congressional Quarterly of June 26, 1964 (p. 1323) recorded that, in the Senate, only 69% of Democrats (46 for, 21 against) voted for the Civil Rights Act as compared to 82% of Republicans (27 for, 6 against). All southern Democratic senators voted against the Act.

In the House of Representatives, 61% of Democrats (152 for, 96 against) voted for the Civil Rights Act; 92 of the 103 southern Democrats voted against it. Among Republicans, 80% (138 for, 34 against) voted for it.


Republican Party Platform of 1960
July 25, 1960

...Civil Rights
This nation was created to give expression, validity and purpose to our spiritual heritage—the supreme worth of the individual. In such a nation—a nation dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal—racial discrimination has no place. It can hardly be reconciled with a Constitution that guarantees equal protection under law to all persons. In a deeper sense, too, it is immoral and unjust. As to those matters within reach of political action and leadership, we pledge ourselves unreservedly to its eradication.

Equality under law promises more than the equal right to vote and transcends mere relief from discrimination by government. It becomes a reality only when all persons have equal opportunity, without distinction of race, religion, color or national origin, to acquire the essentials of life—housing, education and employment. The Republican Party—the party of Abraham Lincoln—from its very beginning has striven to make this promise a reality. It is today, as it was then, unequivocally dedicated to making the greatest amount of progress toward the objective.

We recognize that discrimination is not a problem localized in one area of the country, but rather a problem that must be faced by North and South alike. Nor is discrimination confined to the discrimination against Negroes. Discrimination in many, if not all, areas of the country on the basis of creed or national origin is equally insidious. Further we recognize that in many communities in which a century of custom and tradition must be overcome heartening and commendable progress has been made.

The Republican Party is proud of the civil rights record of the Eisenhower Administration. More progress has been made during the past eight years than in the preceding 80 years. We acted promptly to end discrimination in our nation's capital. Vigorous executive action was taken to complete swiftly the desegregation of the armed forces, veterans' hospitals, navy yards, and other federal establishments.

We supported the position of the Negro school children before the Supreme Court. We believe the Supreme Court school decision should be carried out in accordance with the mandate of the Court.

Although the Democratic-controlled Congress watered them down, the Republican Administration's recommendations resulted in significant and effective civil rights legislation in both 1957 and 1960—the first civil rights statutes to be passed in more than 80 years.

Hundreds of Negroes have already been registered to vote as a result of Department of Justice action, some in counties where Negroes did not vote before. The new law will soon make it possible for thousands and thousands of Negroes previously disenfranchised to vote.

By executive order, a committee for the elimination of discrimination in government employment has been reestablished with broadened authority. Today, nearly one-fourth of all federal employees are Negro.

The President's Committee on Government Contracts, under the chairmanship of Vice President Nixon, has become an impressive force for the elimination of discriminatory employment practices of private companies that do business with the government.

Other important achievements include initial steps toward the elimination of segregation in federally-aided housing; the establishment of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, which enforces federal civil rights laws; and the appointment of the bi-partisan Civil Rights Commission, which has prepared a significant report that lays the groundwork for further legislative action and progress.

The Republican record is a record of progress—not merely promises. Nevertheless, we recognize that much remains to be done.

Each of the following pledges is practical and within realistic reach of accomplishment. They are serious—not cynical—pledge
1. Voting.
We pledge:
Continued vigorous enforcement of the civil rights laws to guarantee the right to vote to all citizens in all areas of the country.

Legislation to provide that the completion of six primary grades in a state accredited school is conclusive evidence of literacy for voting purposes.


2. Public Schools.
We pledge:
The Department of Justice will continue its vigorous support of court orders for school desegregation. Desegregation suits now pending involve at least 39 school districts. Those suits and others already concluded will affect most major cities in which school segregation is being practiced.

It will use the new authority provided by the Civil Rights Act of 1960 to prevent obstruction of court orders.

We will propose legislation to authorize the Attorney General to bring actions for school desegregation in the name of the United States in appropriate cases, as when economic coercion or threat of physical harm is used to deter persons from going to court to establish their rights.

Our continuing support of the President's proposal, to extend federal aid and technical assistance to schools which in good faith attempted to desegregate.

We oppose the pretense of fixing a target date 3 years from now for the mere submission of plans for school desegregation. Slow-moving school districts would construe it as a three-year moratorium during which progress would cease, postponing until 1963 the legal process to enforce compliance. We believe that each of the pending court actions should proceed as the Supreme Court has directed and that in no district should there be any such delay.


3. Employment.
We pledge:
Continued support for legislation to establish a Commission on Equal Job Opportunity to make permanent and to expand with legislative backing the excellent work being performed by the President's Committee on Government Contracts.

Appropriate legislation to end the discriminatory membership practices of some labor union locals, unless such practices are eradicated promptly by the labor unions themselves.

Use of the full-scale review of existing state laws, and of prior proposals for federal legislation, to eliminate discrimination in employment now being conducted by the Civil Rights Commission, for guidance in our objective of developing a Federal-State program in the employment area.

Special consideration of training programs aimed at developing the skills of those now working in marginal agricultural employment so that they can obtain employment in industry, notably in the new industries moving into the South.


4. Housing.
We pledge:
Action to prohibit discrimination in housing constructed with the aid of federal subsidies.


5. Public Facilities and Services.
We pledge:
Removal of any vestige of discrimination in the operation of federal facilities or procedures which may at any time be found.

Opposition to the use of federal funds for the construction of segregated community facilities.

Action to ensure that public transportation and other government authorized services shall be free from segregation.


6. Legislative Procedure.
We pledge:
Our best efforts to change present Rule 22 of the Senate and other appropriate Congressional procedures that often make unattainable proper legislative implementation of constitutional guarantees.

We reaffirm the constitutional right to peaceable assembly to protest discrimination in private business establishments. We applaud the action of the businessmen who have abandoned discriminatory practices in retail establishments, and we urge others to follow their example.

Finally we recognize that civil rights is a responsibility not only of states and localities; it is a national problem and a national responsibility. The federal government should take the initiative in promoting inter-group conferences among those who, in their communities, are earnestly seeking solutions of the complex problems of desegregation—to the end that closed channels of communication may be opened, tensions eased, and a cooperative solution of local problems may be sought.

In summary, we pledge the full use of the power, resources and leadership of the federal government to eliminate discrimination based on race, color, religion or national origin and to encourage understanding and good will among all races and creeds.


Republican Party Platforms: Republican Party Platform of 1960

I think jakey got owned...his little quip was proven wrong

 

[JakeStarkey]

deporto and bucky are screwing up.

No Republican senator or representative from the South voted for the Civil Rights or Voting acts. Some Dems from the South did.

The vote was by geography (North and West) and against the bigots (of the South).

I own depooto and bucky.

 

[depotoo]

deporto and bucky are screwing up.

No Republican senator or representative from the South voted for the Civil Rights or Voting acts. Some Dems from the South did.

The vote was by geography (North and West) and against the bigots (of the South).

I own depooto and bucky.

Senator Richard Russell, Democrat from Georgia, led the so-called opposition forces. The group was also known as the "southern bloc." It was composed of eighteen southern Democrats and one Republican, John Tower of Texas. Although a hopeless minority, the group exerted much influence because Senate rules virtually guaranteed unlimited debate unless it was ended by cloture. The "southern bloc" relied on the filibuster to postpone the legislation as long as possible, hoping that support for civil rights legislation throughout the country would falter. The Democratic leadership and Humphrey could not control the southern wing of the party.

Russell's forces disliked civil rights legislation for several reasons. Many feared that their southern constituents would vote them out of office if, as senators, they voted for equal rights for African Americans. The "southern bloc" held up consideration of the bill from March into June hoping that presidential candidate George Wallace, a segregationist from Alabama, would do well in the early presidential primaries. If Wallace seemed popular, Russell would argue that the nation as a whole did not support federal civil rights legislation and that the Senate should not pass an unwanted bill. Southern senators could not compromise. Only by forcing cloture could they demonstrate to their constituents that they had fought to the end against hopeless odds.

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[buckeye45_73]

deporto and bucky are screwing up.

No Republican senator or representative from the South voted for the Civil Rights or Voting acts. Some Dems from the South did.

The vote was by geography (North and West) and against the bigots (of the South).

I own depooto and bucky.

Senator Richard Russell, Democrat from Georgia, led the so-called opposition forces. The group was also known as the "southern bloc." It was composed of eighteen southern Democrats and one Republican, John Tower of Texas. Although a hopeless minority, the group exerted much influence because Senate rules virtually guaranteed unlimited debate unless it was ended by cloture. The "southern bloc" relied on the filibuster to postpone the legislation as long as possible, hoping that support for civil rights legislation throughout the country would falter. The Democratic leadership and Humphrey could not control the southern wing of the party.

Russell's forces disliked civil rights legislation for several reasons. Many feared that their southern constituents would vote them out of office if, as senators, they voted for equal rights for African Americans. The "southern bloc" held up consideration of the bill from March into June hoping that presidential candidate George Wallace, a segregationist from Alabama, would do well in the early presidential primaries. If Wallace seemed popular, Russell would argue that the nation as a whole did not support federal civil rights legislation and that the Senate should not pass an unwanted bill. Southern senators could not compromise. Only by forcing cloture could they demonstrate to their constituents that they had fought to the end against hopeless odds.

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1 republican fakey....massive sample size..you have shown...you can repeat liberal talking points....thats it....hilarious

 

[JakeStarkey]

Doesn't matter, bucktooth: no GOP senator or rep from the south voted for the Civil Rights and Voting acts, while a small minority of dem southerners did vote for it.

Once again, bucktooth fails, but the good thing to know now is his virulent hatred for blacks is in the open, just like that of jtpr312 and lonestar.

Sorry, sorry reactionaries.

 

[depotoo]

Doesn't matter, bucktooth: no GOP senator or rep from the south voted for the Civil Rights and Voting acts, while a small minority of dem southerners did vote for it.

Once again, bucktooth fails, but the good thing to know now is his virulent hatred for blacks is in the open, just like that of jtpr312 and lonestar.

Sorry, sorry reactionaries.

Senator Richard Russell, Democrat from Georgia, led the so-called opposition forces. The group was also known as the "southern bloc." It was composed of eighteen southern Democrats and one Republican, John Tower of Texas.

The bill came before the full Senate for debate on March 30, 1964 and 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. 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."

 

[buckeye45_73]

Doesn't matter, bucktooth: no GOP senator or rep from the south voted for the Civil Rights and Voting acts, while a small minority of dem southerners did vote for it.

Once again, bucktooth fails, but the good thing to know now is his virulent hatred for blacks is in the open, just like that of jtpr312 and lonestar.

Sorry, sorry reactionaries.

Lol. Fakey, facts dont matter....just a libtard narrative.....of lies and assumptions....pepetrsted by liberal academia and media.


1 republican equals tons according to fakey....what a sample

 

[JakeStarkey]

Doesn't matter, bucktooth: no GOP senator or rep from the south voted for the Civil Rights and Voting acts, while a small minority of dem southerners did vote for it.

Once again, bucktooth fails, but the good thing to know now is his virulent hatred for blacks is in the open, just like that of jtpr312 and lonestar.

Sorry, sorry reactionaries.

Lol. Fakey, facts dont matter....just a libtard narrative.....of lies and assumptions....pepetrsted by liberal academia and media. 1 republican equals tons according to fakey....what a sample

Which is far more than ZERO dems, hmmm? The fake narratives of the reactionaries simply cannot handle the facts and the real evidence.

Bucktooth rides and fails again.

 

[Flopper]

Each of the following pledges is practical and within realistic reach of accomplishment. They are serious—not cynical—pledge
1. Voting.
We pledge:
Continued vigorous enforcement of the civil rights laws to guarantee the right to vote to all citizens in all areas of the country.

2. Public Schools.
We pledge:
The Department of Justice will continue its vigorous support of court orders for school desegregation. Desegregation suits now pending involve at least 39 school districts. Those suits and others already concluded will affect most major cities in which school segregation is being practiced.

3. Employment.
We pledge:
Continued support for legislation to establish a Commission on Equal Job Opportunity to make permanent and to expand with legislative backing the excellent work being performed by the President's Committee on Government Contracts.

4. Housing.
We pledge:
Action to prohibit discrimination in housing constructed with the aid of federal subsidies.

5. Public Facilities and Services.
We pledge:
Removal of any vestige of discrimination in the operation of federal facilities or procedures which may at any time be found.

6. Legislative Procedure.
We pledge:
Our best efforts to change present Rule 22 of the Senate and other appropriate Congressional procedures that often make unattainable proper legislative implementation of constitutional guarantees.

The Republicans pledged; the Democrats acted.

• It was Truman in 1948 that order the military to desegregate.
• It was Truman in 1948, who made it illegal to discriminate against persons applying for civil service positions based on race.
• It was Truman who made it illegal for defense contractors to discriminate based on race.
• It was a liberal Warren Court that desegregated public schools in 1954.
• It was Kennedy who mobilized the National Guard and sent federal troops to the University of Mississippi campus to enforce court ordered intergration.
• It was a Democratic Congress that passed the 1965 Voter's Rights Act that outlawed discriminatory voting practices.
• It was Johnson who ordered the military and the FBI to investigate the 1965 KKK murders in Mississippi.
• It was Johnson who went on television to announce the arrest of four Ku Klux Klansmen implicated in the death of a young female civil rights worker. He angrily denounced the Klan as a "hooded society of bigots,"
• It was Johnson who overcame southern resistance and convinced the Democratic-Controlled Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
• It was Johnson who was the first President to arrest and prosecute members of the Klan since Ulysses S. Grant.

The Democrats acted and they paid a heavy price for their stand on civil rights. The solid democratic south was broken forever and it paved the way for Republican victories that continue to this day.

 

[Freewill]

At the 28 minute mark they talk about why blacks switched parties.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R44dKDhR33U]A_PEBBLE_IN_YOUR_SHOE.flv - YouTube[/ame]

 

[TemplarKormac]

So if SS was a Republican sellout, why are Liberals like you defending it?

What typical comment by a reactionary above. The liberals are not "defending" the SS, they are explaining why so many southern whites left the Repubs for the Dems in 1968 and after. jtpr312, longestar, bucky, etc., are all the descendants of those who move because of racism.

Then why, oh why Jake, did they just hand Obama his ass over it?

Daily Kos: House Democrats not receptive to Social Security*cuts

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/04/obama-budget-social-security-chained-cpi

Still with that reactionary crap? You may not be able to sit down now, you just got whipped again Jake.

 

[TemplarKormac]

Doesn't matter, bucktooth: no GOP senator or rep from the south voted for the Civil Rights and Voting acts, while a small minority of dem southerners did vote for it.

Once again, bucktooth fails, but the good thing to know now is his virulent hatred for blacks is in the open, just like that of jtpr312 and lonestar.

Sorry, sorry reactionaries.

Lol. Fakey, facts dont matter....just a libtard narrative.....of lies and assumptions....pepetrsted by liberal academia and media. 1 republican equals tons according to fakey....what a sample

Which is far more than ZERO dems, hmmm? The fake narratives of the reactionaries simply cannot handle the facts and the real evidence.

Bucktooth rides and fails again.

You must have missed where Robert Byrd filibustered the bill for 14 hours, unsuccessfully. For 57 days Democrats filibustered, and eventually failed. Yeah, facts, which ironically do not reside with you.

http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Civil_Rights_Filibuster_Ended.htm

In the early 1940s, a politically ambitious butcher from West Virginia named Bob Byrd recruited 150 of his friends and associates to form a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. After Byrd had collected the $10 joining fee and $3 charge for a robe and hood from every applicant, the "Grand Dragon" for the mid-Atlantic states came down to tiny Crab Orchard, W.Va., to officially organize the chapter.

As Byrd recalls now, the Klan official, Joel L. Baskin of Arlington, Va., was so impressed with the young Byrd's organizational skills that he urged him to go into politics. "The country needs young men like you in the leadership of the nation," Baskin said.

The young Klan leader went on to become one of the most powerful and enduring figures in modern Senate history.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/18/AR2005061801105.html

Here is a bit more, Jake:

On June 10, 1964, Everett Dirksen (R-IL), the Republican Leader in the U.S. Senate, condemned the Democrats’ 57-day filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Leading the Democrats in their opposition to civil rights for African-Americans was Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV). Byrd, who got into politics as a recruiter for the Ku Klux Klan, spoke against the bill for fourteen straight hours. Democrats still call Robert Byrd “the conscience of the Senate.”

In his speech, Senator Dirksen called on the Democrats to end their filibuster and accept racial equality.

http://www.lib.niu.edu/1996/iht319648.html

Next, we can go even further back in history to 1866, where a Democratic campaign poster such as this one was circulated:

So yeah, Republicans get the credit here. They advocated Civil Rights, while Democrats did not. You're finished here Jake. Move along.

 

[whitehall]

The media is the clue. The liberal media was always in the back pocket of democrat administrations and the entire freaking media available to the public on radio, newspapers and TV was liberal in those days. Black people were taught to accept the democrat new plantation called "the great society" because the media allowed segregationist democrats to turn on a dime and finance poverty pimps disguised as Ministers and "community activists" to preach LBJ's new-new deal.

 

[Flopper]

The media is the clue. The liberal media was always in the back pocket of democrat administrations and the entire freaking media available to the public on radio, newspapers and TV was liberal in those days. Black people were taught to accept the democrat new plantation called "the great society" because the media allowed segregationist democrats to turn on a dime and finance poverty pimps disguised as Ministers and "community activists" to preach LBJ's new-new deal.

Liberal democrats controlled congress and the presidency in 60's. They are the ones that enforced desegregation ordered by a liberal Supreme Court and the Voting Rights Act. They are ones that got the Voting Rights Act passed and the Civil Rights Act passed. Of course the media focused on them. They were in the drivers seat and republicans were along for the ride. The media was liberal in 60's because America was liberal in the 60's.

 

[depotoo]

The media is the clue. The liberal media was always in the back pocket of democrat administrations and the entire freaking media available to the public on radio, newspapers and TV was liberal in those days. Black people were taught to accept the democrat new plantation called "the great society" because the media allowed segregationist democrats to turn on a dime and finance poverty pimps disguised as Ministers and "community activists" to preach LBJ's new-new deal.

Liberal democrats controlled congress and the presidency in 60's. They are the ones that enforced desegregation ordered by a liberal Supreme Court and the Voting Rights Act. They are ones that got the Voting Rights Act passed and the Civil Rights Act passed. Of course the media focused on them. They were in the drivers seat and republicans were along for the ride. The media was liberal in 60's because America was liberal in the 60's.

yet only 61% of the Dems supported the Civil Rights Act vs. 80% of the Reps. in the Senate and 69% Dems vs 82% Reps in the House.
Those are the telling numbers.
Who led the filibuster? None other than Robert Byrd
Who also added the word "sex" to the Bill hoping that would bring about its demise?
None other than Rep. Howard Smith of VA (D). Unexpectedly it passed even with the word "sex" in it, pushed on by committee members Representative Martha Griffiths (D) and Senator Margaret Chase Smith (R) insisted it remain.
SMITH, Howard Worth - Biographical Information
Prologue: Pieces of History » Sex?and the Civil Rights Bill

Who led the final arguments in opposition? Georgia Democrat Richard Russell

Who spoke for the proponents? Minority Leader Everett Dirksen from IL (R) who had enlisted the Republican votes that made cloture a realistic option. His words?
"Stronger than all the armies is an idea whose time has come." He continued, "The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing in government, in education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here!"