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We shall overcome ... liberals
At a black church in Philadelphia, Martin Luther King Jr.'s niece joined Jerry Falwell and Rick Santorum to denounce critics of Samuel Alito.
By Michelle Goldberg [2006-01-09]
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  • On Southern Democrats

    "The 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed 138-34 by Republicans and 153-96 by Democrats. Nearly THREE TIMES as many Democrats voted against the act as did Republicans. The act itself was almost derailed by the Southern DEMOCRATS."

    Civil Rights aren't about Democrats and Republicans, they're about liberals and conservatives. If you know anything about politics and the South for the past 150 years, they've been traditionally Democrats since after the Civil War, when the then liberal Republicans took away states rights & slavery. They clung to the title Democrocrat even after Roosevelt's reforms, but stuck with their conservative ideologies. They only began to associate themselves nationally with the Republicans with the Civil Rights Movement. Even today, much of the old Confederacy has Democrat controlled state and local governments, but routine elect Republicans to national offices. All this to say, Southern Democrats may have voted against Civil Rights, but they were in no way shape or form liberals.

    -- Southern Liberal
    Friday, January 13, 2006 11:08 PM

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