Comments by "AMAR REDER" (@amarreder6241) on "Was the Civil War About Slavery? | 5 Minute Video" video.
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@rebelRed_
WALLSTREET JOURNAL
Democrat/GOP Vote Tally on 1964 Civil Rights Act
Dec. 31, 2002 12:01 am ET
After reading Shelby Steele's excellent Dec. 18 essay "American Conservatism: Of Race and Imagination" we felt compelled to respond to the popular misconception that "conservatism, for all its commitment to freedom, did not make itself the principled enemy of racism during the civil-rights era." With a little research, the actual voting record for both Houses of Congress shows that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed the Senate on a 73-to-27 vote. The Democratic supermajority in the Senate split their vote 46 (69%) for and 21 (31%) against. The Republicans, on the other hand, split their vote 27 for (82%) and 6 against (18%). Thus, the no vote consisted of 78% Democrats. Further, the infamous 74-day filibuster was led by the Southern Democrats, who overwhelmingly voted against the act.
An examination of the House vote shows a similar pattern. The House voted 290 to 130 in favor. Democrats split their vote 152 (61%) to 96 (39%) while Republicans split theirs 138 (80%) to 34 (20%). The no vote consisted of 74% Democrats. Clearly, the 1964 Civil Rights Act could not have been passed without the leadership of Republicans such as Everett Dirksen and the votes of Republicans. As the online Wall Street Journal so aptly subtitled Mr. Steele's article, "Trent Lott jeopardizes the very productive ideas his party stands for."
Clark L. Maxam
MaryCarol B. Maxam
Bozeman, Mont.
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You remind me of a boxer fighting Tyson, getting his butt kicked and still talking trash @Rundstedt1 .
If there was a Racist Southern Strategy used by Nixon wouldn't he have WON the south? Huh?
NIXON LOST THE SOUTH.
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Upon his taking office in 1969, Nixon also put into effect America's first affirmative action program. Dubbed the PHILADELPHIA PLAN, it imposed racial goals and timetables on the building trade unions, first in Philadelphia and then elsewhere (Stop giving Democrats credit for NIXON'S plan) Would a man seeking to build an electoral base of Deep South white supremacists actually promote the first program to legally discriminate in favor of blacks? This is absurd 😎
Nixon barely campaigned in the Deep South. His strategy, as outlined by Kevin Phillips in his classic work, "The Emerging Republican Majority," was to target the SUNBELT, the vast swath of territory stretching from Florida to Nixon's native California. This included what Phillips terms the Outer or Peripheral South.
Nixon recognized the South was changing. Southerns were starting to vote VALUES. The only "1" Senator who switched was for Republican Values. The south was turning against abortion, homosexuality and drugs (Democrats Strongholds). The south was becoming more industrialized, with many northerners moving to the Sunbelt. Nixon's focus, Phillips writes, was on the non-racist, upwardly-mobile, largely urban voters of the Outer or Peripheral South. Nixon won these voters, and he LOST the Deep South, which went to Democratic segregationist George Wallace.
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