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To: Dan B. who wrote (57682)	7/5/2009 3:20:30 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 149317

Let me organize the facts below as you seem incapable of doing it. Southern democrats were also known as dixiecrats and as conservative as they come. The only southern democrat to vote for the 1964 civil rights act was Ralph Yarborough who was a hard core liberal and lost the next election. He was the ONLY southern democrat to vote for the 64 civil rights act. Get it? He was also the smartest of the bunch. In the house only 7% of southern democrats (dixiecrats remember??) voted for for the 1964 civil rights act. NO, NONE of the Souther Republcian voted for it. 94% of Nothern democrats (i.e. liberals) voted for the 1964 civil rights act. The only northern senator to not vote for the 64 civil rights act was Robert Byrd a well known ex KKK man. Do you get it now? NO liberals voted against the 64 civil rights act I know of and no conservatives voted for the 64civil rights act. And anyone who voted agaisnt he 64 civil rights act should be ashamed of themselves!!! So after the 64 civil rights act, the dixiecrats became Reublicans and now the south is the last bastion of the hard right wing and the less educated parts are the most conservative. See a patttern?? Get it?! edit] By party and region Note: "Southern", as used in this section, refers to members of Congress from the eleven states that made up the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. "Northern" refers to members from the other 39 states, regardless of the geographic location of those states. The original House version: Southern Democrats: 7-87 (7%-93%) Southern Republicans: 0-10 (0%-100%) Northern Democrats: 145-9 (94%-6%) Northern Republicans: 138-24 (85%-15%) The Senate version: Southern Democrats: 1-20 (5%-95%) (only Senator Ralph Yarborough of Texas voted in favor) Southern Republicans: 0-1 (0%-100%) (this was Senator John Tower of Texas) Northern Democrats: 45-1 (98%-2%) (only Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia opposed the measure) Northern Republicans: 27-5 (84%-16%) (Senators Bourke Hickenlooper of Iowa, Barry Goldwater of Arizona, Edwin L. Mechem of New Mexico, Milward L. Simpson of Wyoming, and Norris H. Cotton of New Hampshire opposed the measure)

To: Dan B. who wrote (57682)	7/5/2009 3:35:03 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

That opens the door for military coups in any country with no regard to democratic process. Of course America has been a proponent of military coups in the past, when it suited our purposes. I hope that has changed. If he had lost an election but refused to leave office, that is a time for the military to step in on behalf of the people... I can't think of any other situation that calls for it, aside perhaps when an elected President turns despot and is killing people... but there has been no suggestion of that... and again that would be the military stepping in on behalf of the people at large, not the wealthy to protect the wealth.

To: Dan B. who wrote (57682)	7/5/2009 4:56:13 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Can you read three paragraphs? To: koan who wrote (57684) 7/5/2009 3:39:52 PM From: Wharf Rat Read Replies (1) of 57699 After the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965 by the Johnson administration, many southerners began to question the Democratic Party and its objectives. Some felt it was out of line to pass such legislation and many traditional southern Democrats, strict to their belief of white supremacy, joined the Republicans. Prominent southern Democratic senators, such as Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms, and Trent Lott switched to the Republican Party as the Democrats strayed more and more away from their traditional conservatism.[21] United under Goldwater, the Republicans, at least nationally, stood more conservatively than did the Democrats. For this reason, they gradually began appealing to the southern voter. Republicans from 1964 on began speaking in a conservative voice. Since the Democrats became the champions of equal rights with the Civil Rights era legislation and LBJ’s Great Society, they could no longer play the conservative card, not even in the South. Southern Democratic congressmen were forced to vote with their party on these critical issues; therefore, their approval at home declined and Republicans were able to use this against them in elections years.[22] Though the Democrats continued to organize biracial coalitions, the white electorate of the south was slowly being appealed to by the Republicans. In 1980, the de-alignment of the southern Democrats took place with the presidency of Ronald Reagan.[23] According to the Black brothers: Reagan attracted a majority of white conservatives into the Republican Party and persuaded many other conservatives to think of themselves as ‘independents’ rather than as Democrats. The Republican President had a different impact on southern white moderates. He eroded their traditional attachment to the Democratic Party and increased their Republican ties, thereby neutralizing a huge, longstanding Democratic advantage among this critically important segment of the southern electorate.[24] This unification made the Republican Party more competitive with its Democratic opponents in the south and allowed for more Republicans to take office there. The shift of the electorate, according to the Black brothers, occurred exactly when it should have. “The south finally experienced a Republican president with whom they could proudly identify.”[25] Reagan effectively appealed the Republican Party to white southerners as the party best able to accomplish their political goals.[26] marshall.edu