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To: TimF who wrote (69953)	1/20/2009 5:50:57 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 71178

Impressive. I had no idea.

To: TimF who wrote (69953)	1/20/2009 7:08:00 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Regarding the 1964 Civil Rights act-Come on-lol! Are you engaging in revisionist history on purpose or just out of lack of knowledge. I am sure you are very aware that it was liberals versus conservatives, not necessarily Democrats versus Republicans. In the 1960's there were lots of conservative democrats called Dixiecrats and even a fewliberal Republicans. The dixiecrats were dems because the democratic party was the party of unions. After the civlil rights act passed, LBJ said: we just lost the south for the next 50 years. Very precient. The dirty little secret is that the Republican's then went to the south and said "vote for us and we will not enforce those civil rights acts anymore than we have to e.g. affirmative action and busing. Conservative senators filabustered for 14 days to stop it. Then in 1980 there was Lee Atwater who was as bad a man as Hitler, who developed "the southern strategy". A strategy to woe the southern conservatives away from the dems by demagauging the three G's: "guns, god and gays". It was an ugly staregy that divided us until Nov 4, 2008!

To: TimF who wrote (69953)	1/21/2009 2:28:43 AM
From: JF Quinnelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Limbaugh and Hannity routinely claim Republican credit for passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964- I think it actually became law in '65. Limbaugh was certainly alive then as he is my age. There is nothing inaccurate with this claim, other than it was the now largely defunct liberal wing of the GOP that passed the bill. Javits, Rockefeller, Percy, that crowd. Rush can claim them if he wants. They just didn't happen to be remotely conservative, in fact they were bitterly opposed to Barry Goldwater. I've yet to hear him acknowledge this. He may not even know it, which wouldn't surprise me.