"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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Subject: Why didn't GWB join the U.S. Air Force ???
From: "Steven P. McNicoll"
Date: 7/16/2004 5:47 PM Pacific Standard Time
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"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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The civil rights act turned the "Solid" southern Democratic states
into
the
"solid" Republican states. The South deserted the Democratic party not
because
they believed in Republican principles,but because they were furious at
the
Democrats for standing up for Civil Rights..


It was the Democrats that opposed civil rights legislation.


Yes. SOUTHERN Democrats.


Most Democrats. Postwar civil rights measures went nowhere until enough
Democrats crossed party lines to vote with the Republican minority to pass
them.