This landmark legislation ended legal discrimination in America. Who supported it more, in terms of % of party vote? Was it Republicans or Democrats?
2006-10-13 06:32:35 · 10 answers · asked by Shane L 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
The Republicans supported it more.
Incidentally, why do people keep perpetuating the misconception that back in the 1960s the Republicans of today were the Democrats, and the Democrats were the Republicans.
I am not a Republican, but since when has the Republican Party every been pro Socialist? Favoring bigger government, higher taxes, and social programs?
Are you crazy?
If anything the Republican Party back in the 60s was even more conservative. Most Republican in the 1960s were fiscally conservative to the point they wanted to even scrap Social Security!
If anything you should say the Democrats of today are the Socialist Party USA of the 1960s, and the Libertarians of today are the Republicans of the 1960s.
And wizzards_23, since when does the US Senate have 415 members. Last time I checked there were 100 Senators.
However, using your numbers for the House of Representative:
39% of Democrats voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
20% of Republicans voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
So, nearly twice as many Democrats voted against the Civil rights Act than Republicans!
And you are also forgetting that back in the 1960s Democrats voted against the Civil Rights Act because they were racists, and the Republicans that did voted against the Civil Rights Act did so because they were against expanding the power of the Federal Government, and felt that such an expansion violated the Constitution.
The Republicans who voted against it where generally Goldwater Republicans who felt the best way to combat segregation and discrimination was through economic means. The same way Dr. King did with the bus boycott.
But the answer is: The Republican passed the Civil Rights Act!
2006-10-13 08:05:57 · answer #1 · answered by TheMayor 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
definite the Republicans of as we talk help the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Republicans of 1964 supported the Civil Rights Act 2 to at least a million with the Democrats. Senator Robert Byrd from West Virginia, and previous recruiter for the KKK, Filibustered adversarial to the passage of the bill on the Senate floor. The Democratic social gathering is the social gathering that began the Civil conflict to shop criminal interior of u . s . a . of america. The Republicans are those that ended Slavery. The Republican Presidents are those that positioned the first Black Justice, and the first woman Justice on the preferrred court docket.
2016-12-04 19:15:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your question is misleading, or at least the answerer's toward Republicans are incorrect.
President John F. Kennedy introduced the bill (Democrat). After his assasination in 1963, Lyndon Johnson continued the sponsoring of the bill and pressured Republican Senate leaders to rally their own to get it on their side. The party was extremely hesitant to get behind the Senate.
The House Version voted Democrats153-96 and Republicans 138-34. The Senate version was Democrats: 153-91 and Republicans: 136-35. So I would say that Democrats passed the Legislation.
Aside from all that, Democrats championed the movement, such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.
And it didn't end discrimination, because it still exists today.
2006-10-13 06:53:37 · answer #3 · answered by Big Bear 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Republicans have done more for civil rights than the Demorats have ever even dreamed of doing. Lincoln began with the Emancipation Proclamation, Eisenhower integrated the armed forces, Nixon expanded the Civil Rights Act. If you want to get somebody else's opinion, read the autobiography of Sammy Davis Jr. He was tossed out of the Rat Pack for supporting Nixon. Yet he did so because he felt the Republican Party was the only one to bring equality to the nation.
2006-10-13 06:37:46 · answer #4 · answered by Spirit Walker 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The Republicans but you have to remember that back then, The Republicans were the Democrats and the Democrats were the Republicans. Also today's Republicans are for limited government, but to my knowledge that is changing too, with terrorism and everything.
2006-10-13 06:43:10 · answer #5 · answered by lib/con thing 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Democrats obviously opposed it but the Republicans of old are not what we have today. If it were left to the Governor of Mississippi, I would not have a Computer Science Master and I wouldn't be running my own business travelling the world and doing business with all colors and creed.
I cannot forget all this happened within my lifetime, albeit as a young boy.
2006-10-13 06:36:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Republicans. It was Democrats, particularly southern ones, who strongly opposed the 1964 act.
2006-10-13 06:37:45 · answer #7 · answered by college_republicans_club 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
republicans of coarse,the democratic party was split due to the south..kennedy was forced into it due to riots and the march.. he had earlier broken off talks with martin luther king ..i think the riots in albany georgia was the pinnacle of the riots and birmingham where they bombed the church and got out the fire hoses..
2006-10-13 06:39:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Contrary to today's party, it was the Republicans.
2006-10-13 06:34:03 · answer #9 · answered by JaMoke 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
of course republican...
2006-10-13 06:34:20 · answer #10 · answered by yadtsal 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋