Posted on 01/03/2020 1:54:26 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion
Likewise, throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s, Democratic governors and overwhelmingly Democratic State Legislatures controlled the South, which steadfastly opposed the push for civil rights. In contrast, Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower, openly praised school desegregation in the Brown v. Board of Education decision and sent federalized Arkansas National Guard troops to Little Rock to protect nine black students after Democratic Governor Orval Faubus threatened to keep them out of a previously all-white high school.
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In June of 1964, though, the Civil Rights Act came up again, and it passed...over the strenuous objections of Southern Democrats. 80% of House Republicans voted for the measure, compared with just 61% of Democrats, while 82% of Republicans in the Senate supported it, compared with 69% of Democrats.
Nearly all of the opposition was, naturally, in the South, which was still nearly unanimously Democratic and nearly unanimously resistant to the changing country. One thing that most assuredly didn't change, though, was party affiliation. A total of 21 Democrats in the Senate opposed the Civil Rights Act. Only one of them, "Dixiecrat" Strom Thurmond, ever became a Republican. The rest, including Al Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd--a former Exalted Cyclops in the Ku Klux Klan--remained Democrats until the day they died.
Moreover, as those 20 lifelong Democrats retired, their Senate seats remained in Democrat hands for several decades afterwards. So too did the overwhelming majority of the House seats in the South until 1994, when a Republican wave election swept the GOP into control of the House for the first time since 1952.
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Thus my other comment that the Court is in abeyance.
It does not have a delegated power to act as it has.
The article is all over the place. It acts like Republicans were embraced by the south in 1994. Nixon and Reagan carried it easily. Jimmy Carter carried the south the first time in 1976 and got clobbered the second time in 1980. There was nothing monolithic about the southern vote once the Civil Rights Act passed.
That’s one of the best things ever that a POTUS said. Tearing down the wall.
I didn’t know things in the army were so bad under Carter.
But I can see carter being cheap with the military.
I am glad you got out OK and got to see the military men respected again, as they should be.
THAT was definitely due to Reagan.
What a Great Man.
“It does not have a delegated power to act as it has.”
I agree. Unfortunately, both Congress and the Supreme Court do not. :(
It has been noted for a Democrat to win Southern States they must adopt a fake southern accent.
Also for a Rino Republican to win Texas they wear a fake hat and boots.
Trump is the exception.
I have noticed that more and more over the last couple of years (especially here on FR)...
Very annoying when I see it; I gave up correcting others :/
A toast to the Gipper! The greatest President of my lifetime!
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