Also slavery, segregation, separate but equal, Dred Scott, internment camps, voting against civil rights...That's a sliver of what Democrats did.
with republicans right there with them, hotshot. it is hard to believe how twisted your sense of history is. do you really think the republicans were against FDR moving west coast Japanese to internment camps? Are you really this uninformed? That they were more liberal than FDR on this issue? Are you trying to act stupid? Do you really think republicans were against separate but equal laws more than northern democrats? do you really think southern republicans were more in favor of the Civil Rights Act than southern democrats? Do you really think what people called themselves politically 150 years ago is all that relevant today, when it is the republican president making the racist comments telling black people to go back to Africa, and hardly any republicans complaining? and why do you continue to use the adjective form of democrat when using it as a subject? did you go to junior high, at all?
here is the breakdown of how democrats and republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964- have someone familiar with numbers and percentages explain how wrong you are-
no southern republican in the house voted for the civil rights act. not one. and the democrats held the south so firmly THERE WAS JUST ONE REPUBLICAN SENATOR FROM ANY CONFEDERATE STATES IN 1964 AND ONLY 10 SOUTHERN REPUBLICAN HOUSE MEMBERS......get it? here is the real deal-
By party and region
Note: "Southern", as used in this section, refers to members of Congress from the eleven states that made up the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. "Northern" refers to members from the other 39 states, regardless of the geographic location of those states.
The original House version:
•Southern Democrats: 7–87 (7%–93%)
•Southern Republicans: 0–10
(0%–100%)
•Northern Democrats: 145-9 (94%–6%)
•Northern Republicans: 138-24 (85%–15%)
The Senate version:
•Southern Democrats: 1–20 (5%–95%)
•Southern Republicans: 0–1
(0%–100%)
•Northern Democrats: 45-1 (98%–2%)
•Northern Republicans: 27-5 (84%–16%)
Look at how completely the democrats held the south back then before they supported civil rights...in the whole tier of southern states there was 1 republican senator and 10 republican members of the house!!! and today it is almost reversed!! the democrats knew they were signing their own political death warrant by pushing thru Civil Rights, but they did it anyway, putting doing what is right before political gain.
name one time the republicans have done something so righteous.