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To: NoLibZone
It should come as no surprise that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Republican. In that era, almost all black Americans were Republicans.

That isn't anywhere near the truth, not by party identification or vote, figure roughly 22% Rep. party ID and roughly 29% Republican voting for blacks in that era, before the total collapse in 1964.

17 posted on 08/29/2010 3:22:14 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: ansel12

Black voters, including the few who managed to register in the South, identified as Republican until the mid-20th century. Harry Truman’s desegregation of the armed forces started to pull black voters to the Democrats. JFK’s support for civil rights, albeit mostly lip service, drew some more; the Civil Rights Act of 1964 sealed the deal.

With the possible exception of LBJ, no one was more instrumental in passing the 1964 Act than Everett Dirksen, GOP Senator from Illinois; but the Republicans never made civil rights a national campaign priority.


23 posted on 08/29/2010 4:02:51 PM PDT by ReignOfError
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