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To: loe joe
I am a liberal because civil rights, children's rights, women's rights, and labor rights, are all liberal ideas.

Then why did the Southern Democrats (including Al Gore Sr.) vote against the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

38 posted on 02/18/2005 3:00:16 PM PST by bootless (Never Forget - And Never Again)
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To: bootless

Was the law also written by Republicans?


85 posted on 02/18/2005 3:09:21 PM PST by secret garden (Go Spurs Go!)
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To: bootless

Heck, didn't JFK vote against it when he was a Senator?


130 posted on 02/18/2005 3:21:40 PM PST by teenyelliott (Soilent green is made of liberals...)
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To: bootless
Then why did the Southern Democrats (including Al Gore Sr.) vote against the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

You got him there! I wonder if he knows George Wallace was a democrat.

245 posted on 02/18/2005 3:54:09 PM PST by beckysueb (God bless America and President Bush.)
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