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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Father Terrence who wrote (9986)6/15/2001 11:34:21 PM
From: TimF  Respond to of 59480
 
The South did not "ruin" States' Rights, that is what the rewriters of history would like you to believe.

It might not have ruined the actual constitutional rights but it ruined many attempts to defend them in the political arena.

Tim



To: Father Terrence who wrote (9986)6/16/2001 6:04:56 AM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 59480
 
You turn a blind eye to the effect of the brutality of the regime of racial dominance in the South on the opinions of the electorate. By the time it was clear that Mississippi was so determined to prevent black enfranchisement that it would not convict murderers and terrorists, for example, few decent persons in the country were against federal supervision of voter registration or elections in the state, and many were happy to seek ways of getting white supremacists into federal courts........