Comments by "Remy Lebeau" (@remyllebeau77) on "TED"
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+jdogsful
"kkk affiliated, .... historically oppressive, notoriously racist"
Oh, so you have no idea that the democrats started the kkk, and republicans fought (against democrats) for freeing the slaves and civil rights on into the 20th century. The supposed party switch never happened, because less than 5% of racist democrats and republicans changed parties.
From CNN polotics:
"The act had the longest (democrat) filibuster in U.S. Senate history, and after a bloody, long civil rights struggle, the Senate passed the act 73-27 in July 1964. It became law less than a year after President John F. Kennedy's assassination.
Here are a few surprising facts about how the Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law:
1. More Republicans voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act than Democrats
In the 1960s, Congress was divided on civil rights issues -- but not necessarily along party lines.
"Most people don't realize that today at all -- in proportional terms, a far higher percentage of Republicans voted for this bill than did Democrats, because of the way the Southerners were divided," said Purdum.
The division was geographic. The Guardian's Harry J. Enten broke down the vote, showing that more than 80% of Republicans in both houses voted in favor of the bill, compared with more than 60% of Democrats. When you account for geography, according to Enten's article, 90% of lawmakers from states that were in the Union during the Civil War supported the bill compared with less than 10% of lawmakers from states that were in the Confederacy."
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