Is it true a higher percentage of Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act in 1964 than democrats?

Question

I heard 79% of republicans voted for it, while only 64% of democrats did. Can this possibly be true?

Why haven't the democrats supported civil rights as much as republicans?

nostradomus,, if you are going to say my numbers are incorrect, please tell me what they really are, or everyone will know you are a liar.

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mad scientist, are you being a typical lying liberal? Because some people below provided statistics and their sources.

Answer 1

uh, no.

in fact it was only after the enforcement of the civil rights act that the south became controlled by the republicans.

this is an ugly fact that the republicans have taken advantage of in order to control the south.

the vast majority of us can make the logical conclusion...

Answer 2

Sort of. Rember that at thhat time, the Republican party had only partly been infected with the extreme right-wing ideology that has pretty much destroyed it's credibility today.

Also--at that time the Democratic Party was, in a sense, really two parties--the mainstream Democrats and the Southern Democrats. If you exclude the latter, the Democratic percentage was as high, if not higher than the Republicans on the Civil Rights Act vote (needless to say, the Southern blocwas pretty much against it!).

You hear a lot of people--on both sides-misrepresenting the history. That political confguration wasn't new--it had held since the Civil war--but it collapsed during the civil rights era. A new configruation emerged. The Southern wing--generally opposed to anything that reperesented social equality (of any kind, not just race) shifted to the Republican party, reinforcing its move to the right in the post-WW2 period (e.g. McCarthy, te John Birch Society, etc.). The liberal elements within the republican party, as well as the formerly disenfranchised African american population, which until then had largely been Republican, shifted to the Democratic party.

Which is pretty much how things stand today--although in my opinion (meaning this is a gues; the above is historical fact) the alignments are shifting again. And in a positive direction, I think. The Democrats are lsing their anti-war label (I know, given current events, that seems off-base--but I'm looking at long term trends) and regaining their sense of fiscal responsibility (utterly lost in the 1960s jsut as the GOP has lost it today). The GOP, on the other hand, may well be moving--finally--to purge itself of the control, if not every influence--of the extremist right wing portion of American socity. We have, in fact, all the makings of a new reform era, a la the Civil Rights era, the "Second Great Awakening," or the Progressive era.

Answer 3

Well, now, let's take a look:

Vote totals

Totals are in "Yes-No" format:

* The original House version: 290-130 (69%-31%)
* The Senate version: 73-27 (73%-27%)
* The Senate version, as voted on by the House: 289-126 (70%-30%)

By party

The original House version:

* Democratic Party: 153-96 (61%-39%)
* Republican Party: 138-34 (80%-20%)

The Senate version:

* Democratic Party: 46-22 (68%-32%)
* Republican Party: 27-6 (82%-18%)

The Senate version, voted on by the House:

* Democratic Party: 153-91 (63%-37%)
* Republican Party: 136-35 (80%-20%)

Answer 4

Yes it is true.

The House of Representatives passed the bill by 289 to 126, a vote in which 79% of Republicans and 63% of Democrats voted yes.

The Senate vote was 73 to 27, a vote in which 81% of Republicans and 69% of Democrats voted yes.

In the Senate, Minority Leader Everett Dirksen had little trouble rounding up the votes of most Republicans, and former presidential candidate Richard Nixon also lobbied hard for the bill. Senate Majority Leader Michael Mansfield and Senator Hubert Humphrey led the Democrat drive for passage, while the chief opponents were Democrat Senators Sam Ervin, of later Watergate fame, Albert Gore Sr.(D), and Robert Byrd(D). Senator Byrd, a former Klansman whom Democrats still call "the conscience of the Senate", filibustered against the civil rights bill for fourteen straight hours before the final vote

Answer 5

You do not know what a socialist is. Do not use that phrase until you know what it is. Just because Rush said it does not make it true. And you forgot to tell how Reagan tried to get tax except status for clubs that exclude on the basis of race. And you forgot to include the Republican candidate that made a racist slur to an Indian American. And you forgot a ton of other racist, sexist and bigoted things the Republicans said in your life time. All you listed were taken out of context. So dishonest. Just like all Republicans.

Answer 6

The Republicans are hypocrites as you know and will vote for anything that might make them look better without actually losing them any of their effective power. For instance, they hire people at less than minimum wage, while speaking of equality.
As Crabby says, the parties are not the same people who were in them formerly. Oh, to be honest, the Democrats are hypocrites too. Can you be as honest?

Answer 7

Yes, that is true... It is also true that some of the biggest riots against forced integration were in the North and Boston in particular.

Answer 8

You can easily do a search on this & find out the correct answer instead of relying on hearsay.

Answer 9

No its not true. Republicans tried to stop it.

Answer 10

they know better.