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To: koan who wrote (39650)2/27/2013 6:32:02 AM
From: TimF1 Recommendation  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 85487
 

<<To the contrary, that year, 99 members of Congress signed the "Southern Manifesto" denouncing the court's ruling in Brown. Two were Republicans. Ninety-seven were Democrats. >.

Those were Dixecrats. Conservative dems who are now pubs.


1 - Even for those who where southern conservative "Dixiecrat" dems, they where still Democrats, so there was no distortion.

2 - Quite a few of them where neither southern nor particularly conservative. She lists examples -

Wayne Morse of Oregon, Warren Magnuson of Washington, James Murray of Montana, Mike Mansfield of Montana and Joseph O'Mahoney of Wyoming.

Harry Byrd, Robert Byrd, Allen Ellender, Albert Gore Sr., J. William Fulbright, Walter F. George, Russell Long and Richard Russell