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To: combjelly who wrote (821406)	12/8/2014 11:21:45 AM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By locogringo Respond to of 1587625

Civil Rights didn't cost the Democrats the south - they continued to control it for 30+ years. Until Obama the only Presidents the Democrats elected after the 1964 CRA were southerners LBJ, Carter and Clinton. The liberal fantasy is that in passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Democrats selflessly sacrificed all those white votes in the Deep South. The reality is, Democrats kept the South and added 40 seats in the Congressional Black Caucus. The Democratic Congress included simultaneously klansman Bobby Byrd and Black Panther co-founder Bobby Rush. The Washington Post inadvertently admitted the Myth of Sacrifice is B.S. in a graphic published late Monday night. [ Go to the story to see the graphic - it doesn't copy: donsurber.blogspot.com ] Perhaps unaware of the need to preserve the Republicans-Won-Because-They're-Racist meme, Phillip Bump of the Washington Post wrote: "If Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) loses Saturday's run-off election -- as she is very likely to do -- the Deep South will not have a single governor, senator or state legislature that is in Democratic hands." That's 50 years after the breakthrough civil rights legislation. Democrats did not sacrifice the South. They kept it. The fact is the Democratic Party controlled the legislatures of the 11 Confederate states from Reconstruction until the 1990s -- a period of more than a century. Looking at the lower legislative houses in those states we find Tennessee's House flipped in 1968, but flipped back in 1970 and stayed that way until 2008. The other House flips: North Carolina in 1994, South Carolina and Florida in 1996, Virginia in 2000, Texas in 2003, Georgia in 2005, Louisiana in 2008, Alabama in 2010, and Arkansas and Mississippi in 2012. Of the 22 Dixiecrats who voted against civil rights in 1964, 21 remained Democrats. Only Strom Thurmond switched parties, becoming a Republican after the act passed. Indeed, after the civil rights act, in 1976, the South elected its first president since antebellum, as Jimmy Carter held together a coaltion of white Southerners and black urbanites, fulfilling LBJ's cynical worldview of racial politics.