DSK said:
which Republicans had very much push behind the
civil rights movement? I want names and specific acts & dates.

Dave wrote:
Here's a little history quiz for you, Doug.

When are you going to answer my questions?


Who was the first president since U.S. Grant to send federal troops to the
South to enforce integration?

Eisenhower... although it happened before I was born.


How many Republican senators voted against their minority leader, Ev
Dirksen, on final passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964? How many
Democratic senators joined Senators Byrd, Ervin and Gore, Sr. in opposing
passage?

You could look it up.

You could, but the important facts are that Southern Democrats had a
rather mixed outlook on civil rights, and Republicans almost universally
opposed it. This is one big contributing factor in why the South
switched to a Republican majority in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

I remember quite well some of the race-baiting political speeches of
that era. However, it certainly not the sole property of the South. Many
northerners (and westerners and midwesterners) opposed civil rights, and
the worst riots were in the big cities outside the South.



Those were, of course, before the struggle for equal rights became a demand
for special privilege.

Like what?

When black Americans are allowed to own white Americans as slaves, and
this legal system is in place for 150-odd years, then things will be
equal. Short of that, WTF do you have to complain about?

DSK