--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 8/1/05 2:56:23 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Indeed. Right up into the 1960s, Democrats such as segregationist > Al Gore, Sr. were still against equal rights for blacks. The > Dixiecrats were all Democrats, weren't they? > > Bingo! The republicans freed the slaves and passed the civil rights > legislation and the democrats gave blacks the Jim Crow laws and finally welfare and > the so called "war on poverty" which destroyed the black family unit.
OMG!!! First, to somehow equate the republican party of 140 yrs ago to today's party is ridiculous. Today's republicans have little in common with goldwater much less lincoln. 2nd, the civil rights legislation was introduced by pres. kennedy and led through the house and senate by democrats. IT was opposed by the South - both democrat and republican - with a few exceptions like Johnson of Texas. Finally signed into law by Pres. Johnson, who remarked afterword that he just gave the south to the republicans, which in fact was true as southern bigots felt betrayed by the democrats who championed civil rights and began switching in droves to the republican party which is how it stands today. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
