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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (1748)	11/11/2000 12:45:06 PM
From: TraderGreg	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6710

Blue--You are correct...to an extent. The Civil Rights Act was pushed through as a result of Republican Senators from the North and in spite of Demo(dixie)crat senators from the South. But there has been a major sea change since then. Those Dixcrats are now mostly all members of the Republican party, while the Southern Democrats still remaining<g> tend to be much fewer in number and are more moderate than their Democratic ancestors. The Republicans who voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 looked more like Republicans from 1864 than they do the Republicans of today. (Point in fact, I heard Rush Limbaugh slamming John Chaffee(R-RI) for even daring to be a moderate...and compassionate Rush was doing that the day after Chaffee died.) In fact, that '64 Civil Rights vote was the last phase of the transition begun by Strom Thurmond in 1948. The Presidential election in '64 clearly demonstrated the shift to the Republicans in the SOUTH and the liberal/moderate Republicans from the North gradually faded away(Dirksen, Percy, Brooke, Mathias, and other liberal Repubs ) more or less lost all power. The Southern Strategy was now in place and it reached its peak in the '72 election, lost some ground to Democratic Carter(Southerner) in '76, regained that peak in '80 thru '88. Clinton(Southerner) partially penetrated it in 1992 and 1996. But make no mistake about it, no non-Southern Democrat has won a Presidential vote in a Southern state since John Kennedy. TG