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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (123822)	7/21/2010 5:05:03 PM
From: longnshort	5 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

"But the Dems became the party of Civil Rights under LBJ" oh bullshit, the dems filibustered it and voted against it. LBJ did it for one reason to win the 'naggar' vote for the dems for the next 200 years As Robert Caro pointed out in his extensive biography of LBJ, shortly after signing the 1964 Civil Rights Act, in a phone conversation (on tape at the LBJ Library) with Senator Richard Russell of Georgia, LBJ said, "That'll keep the niggars voting Democrat for the next 200 years."