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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (497228)	11/23/2003 3:45:25 AM
From: AK2004	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

re: What evidence? I am getting tired of posting the same thing to you - maybe you'd listen to someone else. BTW is not it turn for you to produce at least some evidence Message 19528916 "Many have forgotten that Democrats were not just the party of slavery, they were the party of Jim Crow, of segregation, of “separate but equal,” and until as recent as the 1960s, the party that required blacks to count the number of jellybeans in a jar as a “test” to be registered to vote. President Bush’s National Security Advisor and close friend Condoleeza Rice, arguably the most powerful and influential black woman in the history of America, likes to tell the story of how her father became a Republican because Democrats would not allow him to be registered to vote. Let it be known that in the 26 major civil rights votes after 1933, a majority of Democrats opposed civil rights legislation in over 80 percent of the votes. By contrast, the Republican majority favored civil rights in over 96 percent of the votes! If one were to peel back the layers of history even further, one party has stood on the grounds of racial equality and civil rights, and that party is the Republican Party." "Civil Rights legislation was not stayed nor denied. Republicans voted overwhelmingly to break the filibuster by 81.8 percent (27-6), while 65.7 percent (44-23) of Democrats voted for cloture. Nine days later the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed the senate 73-27 with 6 Republicans and 21 Democrats opposing." "After his election, JFK did not produce any new civil rights proposals in 1961 or 1962. During this period the civil rights movement generally proceeded without Presidential Support." "Democratic politicians did not lead the charge on civil rights, they merely took credit." "Realignment and the Rise of Southern Republicans When Lynden Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, he ruefully quipped that he had just delivered the South to the Republican Party for the next generation. Many people attribute this to the South’s racism; however they tend to forget that at that time the overwhelming majority of blacks in the south were Republicans. Blacks in Georgia alone accounted for 70% of the Georgia Republican Party." "Contrary to conventional wisdom, Goldwater’s opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the subsequent shift of blacks to the Democratic Party, did not send a flood of segregationist whites towards the Republican Party. The GOP did not, and has not become a racist party. Only one Democratic Senator who voted against civil rights shifted allegiances to the Republicans" " Segregationist created the Dixiecrats and returned to their party of origin- the Democratic Party- when the civil rights movement succeeded." "With the rise of southern Republicans, the Republican Party has become a truly national party that is competitive in every state. While it is true that the Republican base is centered in the Western and Southern states while the Democratic base is centered in the North Eastern states and California. The states where Democrats enjoy the largest percentage of registered voters - Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Hawaii, Maryland, New York and Connecticut - all have Republican governors."