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To: Dracin72 who wrote (399210)	2/10/2019 8:02:02 AM
From: Sam	1 Recommendation Recommended By koan Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541633

How many times do we have to repeat this: The representatives of the group of people who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 were Democrats back then, part of the Solid South. Today, those people are Republicans--the people who today oppose the Voting Rights Act and try as hard as they can to deny as many blacks the right to vote. Talking about the parties that exist today as if they are the same parties that existed in the 1860s-70s or the same parties that existed in the 1960s-70s is absurd But it is what Republicans love to do--they throw stupid stuff like that into every argument and pretend that they are making sense. If you are serious when you ask that question, you are being fooled. If you are not serious, then you are being a Republican. >> "The south still resents them for the 1964 civil rights act " To give Wharf a break which party filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

To: Dracin72 who wrote (399210)

2/10/2019 11:43:51 AM

From: koan

Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 541633

Come on, that is the old right wing attempt to shift the blame to the Democrats, just as they try to do, claiming Lincoln. Just like with Lincoln, who was a Republican when that party was the liberal party of the northeast free states, and the Democrats were the Southeast slave states; so the Democrats who filibustered the 1964 civil rights act were the "Southern Dixiecrats" who today are mostly Republicans.

As LBJ said when the progressives got the 1964 civil rights act passed:" we just lost the south for a generation" ! It was prophetic and right on. After the 1964 civil rights act the South started becoming and voting Republican.

And the dirty little secret was the Republican's Lee Atwood Southern strategy which was going to the south with "dog whistles" telling the people:" vote for us and we will not enforce the 1964 civil rights act any more than we have to e.g. busing and affirmative action, etc.

So having said that, you either don't know your history very well, or you are doing the same thing you accused Warren of.

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koan "The south still resents them for the 1964 civil rights act " Dracin: "To give Wharf a break which party filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964?