Quote (Thor123422 @ 22 Dec 2020 16:11)
More also voted for it and the Democratic president signed it.
The story of who voted for the Civil Rights Act though is far more about North vs South than Democrat vs Republican. But again, this is anither example of you nit picking. After civil rights Republicans went on to implement the southern strategy which was an explicitly racist strategy meant to drum up white supremacist devotes. This has since been acknowledged by the party and apologized for multiple times so yeah
No nitpicking. You made a factual statement and I verified it. Shall we continue factual statements along the same vein then?
Party of Slavery: Democratic Party.
Party of Emancipation: Republican Party.
Party of Succession: Democratic Party.
Party of Reunification: Republican Party.
Party of KKK: Democratic Party.
Party of Jim Crow: Democratic Party.
Party of Civil Rights: Mixed. Super Majority of the party Republican, Majority of party Democrat.
Party of White Racial Segregation to buck the Civil Rights Act: American Independent Party (George Wallace).
Party of the Southern Strategy, in an attempt to separate the voters from Wallace and his toxic racist and segregationist policies: Republican under Nixon and Phillips
Party of Affirmative Action in the South: Republican, following the predictions (Strategy) in The Emerging Republican Majority.
Party of the 15th Amendment: Republican, with no house democrat votes and no senate democrat votes.
The "Southern Strategy" is not at all what you think it was. It's time you read the Emerging Republican Majority. The 3/5ths compromise gave racist white democrats a huge advantage in house representation, with none of the representation benefitting the black constituency that provided that power. The Civil Rights act of 1964 was the first chipping away, allowing Republicans to target segregation. George Wallace, the freak, who ran for President as a democrat 3 times, then flipped Independent because of his disgust that Democrats helped vote in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, stole a huge portion of the (still white) vote from the Democrats. Nixon then promoted Affirmative action, splitting off those supporters of both the Democrats and Wallace who did NOT approve of racial segregation. Following a rapid gain in support, the 15th amendment was passed purely by Republicans, providing full voting rights for the southern blacks, for the first time, completely destroying the power of the segregationist, racist Southern Democrat party.
The "Southern Strategy" outlined in The Emerging Republican Majority was never about "racism". It was about combating racism, empowering the black citizenry of the South, and ideally gaining them as a huge voting bloc. Your attempts to rewrite history are rather droll.