were state-rights CONSERVATIVES???
Now, do yourself a favor and read up on where the Republicans who voted along with the liberal wing of Democrats in support of civil rights, were from.
Were they from the conservative South (where today's Repub base is at) or were they largely from the upper midwest and northeast?
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"Southern Bloc"
The name given to a group of ((CONSERVATIVE)) southern Democratic Senators, and one Republican Senator (John Tower of Texas), who opposed passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The southern bloc was led by Senator Richard Russell of Georgia.
http://www.congresslink.org/print_teaching_glossary.htm#Sbloc
June 10, 1952 - Harry Truman, speaking to Senator Russell, explains that the liberal Democrats in "Chicago, New York, St. Louis and Kansas City" would never vote for him, and "they must be kept in the Democratic Party."
http://www.ourgeorgiahistory.com/chronpop/2593
2007-08-21
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