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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (329285)	12/15/2002 10:47:05 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Race? Tell that to Max Cleland...

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (329285)	12/16/2002 8:25:05 AM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Yes, that's just what I've been saying, the Republican Party is the Party of Emancipation beginning with Abraham Lincoln, not the demohack party, but the thugs and thieves of the demohack party have been scamming the blacks into thinking they need big liberal government to "take care of them because they can't make it on their own"... what an insult to the abilities and individual effort of an entire people... today, the Republicans are blamed for being racist when it's really the demohacks that are keeping the imaginary "class struggle" going... GZ

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (329285)	12/16/2002 11:25:45 AM
From: Mana	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

When the Civil Rights Act of 64 was enacted the southern segregationists got pissed and began a mass migration to the republican party which is more sympathetic to their cause and it continues to the this day Wrong!!!!! I know the liberal media is always trying to rewrite history, but all you have to do is look at the voting record. Republicans led the charge on civil rights... The House of Representatives debated the bill for nine days and rejected nearly one hundred amendments designed to weaken the bill before passing H.R .7152 on February 10, 1964. Of the 420 members who voted, 290 supported the civil rights bill and 130 opposed it. Republicans favored the bill 138 to 34; Democrats supported it 152-96. It is interesting to note that Democrats from northern states voted overwhelmingly for the bill, 141 to 4, while Democrats from southern states voted overwhelmingly against the bill, 92 to 11. A bipartisan coalition of Republicans and northern Democrats was the key to the bill's success. This same arrangement would prove crucial later to the Senate's approval of the bill. The Republican Party was not so badly split as the Democrats by the civil rights issue. Only one Republican senator participated in the filibuster against the bill. In fact, since 1933, Republicans had a more positive record on civil rights than the Democrats. In the twenty-six major civil rights votes since 1933, a majority of Democrats opposed civil rights legislation in over 80 % of the votes. By contrast, the Republican majority favored civil rights in over 96 % of the votes. congresslink.org