Post by the Scribe on Mar 20, 2020 9:00:01 GMT
WRONG!
companion thread: conservatism.freeforums.net/thread/1691/republican-party-racism
"Before 1964 Liberals populated both parties and it was the Liberals, NOT the conservatives who were passing civil right legislation. Civil Rights ISN'T a political party thing, it isn't Republican or Democratic. It IS CONSERVATIVE VS LIBERAL and has more to do historically with CONFEDERATE "CONSERVATIVE" SOUTH VS UNION "LIBERAL" NORTH.
You don't need to know too much history to understand that the South from the civil war to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 tended to be opposed to minority rights. 90% of members of Congress from states (or territories) that were part of the Union voted in favor of the act, while less than 10% of members of Congress from the old Confederate states voted for it.
Democrats in the north and the south were more likely to vote for the bill than Republicans in the north and south respectively. It just so happened southerners made up a larger percentage of the Democratic than Republican caucus, which created the initial impression than Republicans were more in favor of the act. Nearly 100% of Union state Democrats supported the 1964 Civil Rights Act compared to 85% of Republicans. None of the southern Republicans voted for the bill, while a small percentage of southern Democrats did. The same pattern holds true when looking at ideology instead of party affiliation.
The folks over at voteview.com/ , who created DW-nominate scores to measure the ideology of congressmen and senators, found that THE MORE LIBERAL A CONGRESSMAN OR SENATOR WAS THE MORE LIKELY HE WOULD VOTE FOR THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964, once one controlled for a factor closely linked to geography.
Minorities have a pretty good idea of what they are doing when joining the Democratic party. They recognize that the Democratic party of today looks and sounds a lot more like the Democratic party of the North that with near unity passed the Civil Rights Bill of 1964 than the southern Democrats of the era who blocked it, and today would, like Strom Thurmond, likely be Republicans."
After 1964 all the racist conservatives in the Democratic Party went Republican where they remain the party of racists until today. It is just a natural order of things that Conservatives are racist no matter what their affiliation."
companion thread: conservatism.freeforums.net/thread/1691/republican-party-racism
"Before 1964 Liberals populated both parties and it was the Liberals, NOT the conservatives who were passing civil right legislation. Civil Rights ISN'T a political party thing, it isn't Republican or Democratic. It IS CONSERVATIVE VS LIBERAL and has more to do historically with CONFEDERATE "CONSERVATIVE" SOUTH VS UNION "LIBERAL" NORTH.
You don't need to know too much history to understand that the South from the civil war to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 tended to be opposed to minority rights. 90% of members of Congress from states (or territories) that were part of the Union voted in favor of the act, while less than 10% of members of Congress from the old Confederate states voted for it.
Democrats in the north and the south were more likely to vote for the bill than Republicans in the north and south respectively. It just so happened southerners made up a larger percentage of the Democratic than Republican caucus, which created the initial impression than Republicans were more in favor of the act. Nearly 100% of Union state Democrats supported the 1964 Civil Rights Act compared to 85% of Republicans. None of the southern Republicans voted for the bill, while a small percentage of southern Democrats did. The same pattern holds true when looking at ideology instead of party affiliation.
The folks over at voteview.com/ , who created DW-nominate scores to measure the ideology of congressmen and senators, found that THE MORE LIBERAL A CONGRESSMAN OR SENATOR WAS THE MORE LIKELY HE WOULD VOTE FOR THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964, once one controlled for a factor closely linked to geography.
Minorities have a pretty good idea of what they are doing when joining the Democratic party. They recognize that the Democratic party of today looks and sounds a lot more like the Democratic party of the North that with near unity passed the Civil Rights Bill of 1964 than the southern Democrats of the era who blocked it, and today would, like Strom Thurmond, likely be Republicans."
After 1964 all the racist conservatives in the Democratic Party went Republican where they remain the party of racists until today. It is just a natural order of things that Conservatives are racist no matter what their affiliation."