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To: HPilot who wrote (82001)	6/30/2010 3:42:54 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

Then why did not one southern state repeal segregation? And the south filabustered for 54 days to prevent the 1964 civil rights act. As well the south turned from demo to pub over night following the passage of the 64 civil rights act and LBJ said: "we have lost the south for a generation". He was right. The south was dem because of the unions. But they wanted their racism more than good paying jobs I guess. The dirty little secret is that the pubs promised to not enforce the civil rights act more than they had to. Then the pubs started taking apart their unions and unionization went from 35% in 1980 to about 6% today, I think. And my black friends tell me the racism in the south is much much worse than in the north. As one black friend of mine said, who owns a book store: "even I do not go to Mississippi." >>Perhaps, but the policy did not follow the general racism. You did not see whites riot in the streets against the blacks, in fact some rioted with the blacks. Sure the KKK blew up a few Church's, but by and large the laws were repealed by whites because they stopped voting for the segregationists. Despite the Federal laws, because many of the segregationists were trying to vote in laws to get around federal laws. Sure there are few exceptions such as Wallace, but by and large people (mostly white) quit voting for the racists.>>