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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: bentway who wrote (191822)6/17/2012 9:47:16 AM
From: koan  Read Replies (1) of 543936
 
Conservative Democrats, Dixiecrats who started migrating to the Republican party after the 64 civil rights act. They also purged the party of the Yaroboroug's and the few other southerners who voted for the civil rights act. And as I recall it was a categorical cleansing

The dirty little secret is that the Republican's courted the souths inherent racism (Lee Atwater), by letting them know they did not approve and would not enforce any more civil rights programs than they needed to, programs like affirmative action and busing.

In effect, playing to the souths racists who still held a majority of the vote. Still do..

Ralph Webster Yarborough (June 8, 1903 – January 27, 1996) was a Texas Democratic politician who served in the United States Senate (1957 to 1971) and was a leader of the progressive or liberal wing of his party in his many races for statewide office. As a United States Senator, he was a staunch supporter and author of " Great Society" legislation that encompassed Medicare and Medicaid, the War on Poverty, federal support for higher education and veterans. He co-wrote the Endangered Species Act and was the only southern senator to vote for all civil rights bills from 1957 to 1970 (including the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965). Yarborough was known as "Smilin' Ralph" and used the slogan "Let's put the jam on the lower shelf so the little people can reach it" in his campaigns.

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