Re: I think he's discovered that it doesn't matter what he says
"Actually it was a North /South thing more than Dem/Pub thing. The % of support among northern Dems was higher than northen Pubs and the southern Pubs and Dems were both very high % opposed to the civil rights act."
What you suggest is difficult to swallow. Given that Republican support was much higher, and given that very few of them were from the South, it follows that the bulk of GOP support for the bill was from the North. And it's only logical that Dems in the north would be for the bill, but their numbers were much smaller there so it counts a lot less. Basically it was the GOP that made that bill happen, not the Democrats, and they did it as a minority, dragging the Dems along against the wills of most of them.
Also, please stop repeating fairy tales about rasist-shifts to the GOP; it just shows how well programmed you are.
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