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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: HPilot who wrote (513853)9/17/2009 6:19:10 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (1) of 1577412
 
What you post is incorrect. Here is the exact vote by region and party. Want to try and talk your way out of this vote?

[edit] By party and region
Note: "Southern", as used in this section, refers to members of Congress from the eleven states that made up the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. "Northern" refers to members from the other 39 states, regardless of the geographic location of those states.

The original House version:

Southern Democrats: 7-87 (7%-93%)
Southern Republicans: 0-10 (0%-100%)
Northern Democrats: 145-9 (94%-6%)
Northern Republicans: 138-24 (85%-15%)
The Senate version:

Southern Democrats: 1-20 (5%-95%) (only Senator Ralph Yarborough of Texas voted in favor)
Southern Republicans: 0-1 (0%-100%) (this was Senator John Tower of Texas)
Northern Democrats: 45-1 (98%-2%) (only Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia opposed the measure)
Northern Republicans: 27-5 (84%-16%) (Senators Bourke Hickenlooper of Iowa, Barry Goldwater of Arizona, Edwin L. Mechem of New Mexico, Milward L. Simpson of Wyoming, and Norris H. Cotton of New Hampshire opposed the measure)

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The above shows one of two things, either you are ignorant of the facts or are purposely twisitng the facts. Twisting the facts to make a point is just plain ugly.

The above proves you are either ignorant or a liar.

Those southern democrats were "Dixiecrats" and virtually everyone voted against the 1964 civil rights act; and after the dixiecrats engaged in a record long filabuster to prevent passage of the civil rights act and it passed, virtually changed parties and became Republcians and ahve stayed Rpublicans to this day.

The Dixiecrats were in the 40's. They never lynched blacks. That was in the 20's and earlier. Those were Democrats in white robes. The fact you knew about Dixiecrats proves that you are a liar rather than ignorant. Opps, I guess that makes me a racist!
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