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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One will have to explain to me why all those Southern Democrats from the 1950s and 1960s who opposed Civil Rights and their descendants now belong to the Republican Party.  One must remember that it was the Republican Party that opposed the civil rights legislation.  The foregoing, of course, does not mean that the Democrats have no racists in their midst.  Using Barry as an example is a waste of time.  No one takes him seriously, outside his ward.  I am confident that no national Democratic leader will be supporting David Duke.[/quote]

I"m not quite sure I understand those first two sentences.

i think it is pretty well documented that LBJ was opposed to the Civil Rights Act but signed it anyway.  A LOT of liberals back then were against civil rights and integration, but they were pragmatic enough to figure out it was a way to get votes.  [/quote]

You have your history wrong.  LBJ started out as a teacher of minority students in a segregated town, which motivated him to move into politics.  He bent on his principles in his early career out of political expediency, but started throwing that under the bus in 1957.  By the time he became President, the Civil Rights Act was already dead after Kennedy had tried to get it passed.  He picked it up and carried it over the line.  He personally intervened to break the fillibuster.  And as for political expediency?  When he signed the bill he said "We have lost the South for a generation"  The immediate response was Nixon's Southern Strategy.  So no, this was not about getting votes.  He did it despite the pain he felt it would bring to his party.

So you are right that he wasn't always a supporter.   But you are wrong about his true principles, and about where political expediency led.  And Johnson's personal role in the passage of the Civil Rights Act is an undeniable point of history.[/quote]

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