[Vision2020] Say What?

[keely emerinemix]

Thanks, Kenneth.  You've proved two things here:  One, you're smarter than I am; two, the disgraceful state of the GOP today is largely a continuation of disgraceful civil rights-era behavior on the part of both Southern, Blue Dog Democrats more Republican in nature than Democratic, and the conservative GOP.  I appreciate your work in getting the info to us, and you represented the point far better than I did.

And, Donovan, I'm running out of ways to state that neither party has earned hero status in the fight for justice and equality, although one of them currently attracts more bigots than the other.  On the other hand, I can confidently state in myriad ways that the current GOP and Tea Party appropriation of Rosa Parks is offensive to the memory of a woman who can truly be called a hero, and it should be called out.  

I share Tom's memories of life growing up in an activist, liberal Democrat culture, and I can assure you that during the 1960s, which is as far back as my memories go, the La Raza and NAACP and Urban League activists who filled our house were not at all inclined to align themselves with the GOP.  For some reason, I think that's significant in this argument.

Keely
www.keely-prevailingwinds.com




> From: kmmos1 at verizon.net
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 23:10:08 -0800
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Say What?
> 
> On Thursday 04 March 2010 08:39:15 the lockshop wrote:
> > Disgraceful behavior of the GOP during the civil rights era?
> 
> Attitudes within states and congressional districts concerning what 
> represents disgraceful behavior change with the times. During the 
> civil rights era attitudes toward change among the southern states' 
> delegations were more recalcitrant than among other regions'.
> 
> > What did Robert Byrd, Howard W. Smith, James O. Eastland, Albert
> > Gore, Sr., J. William Fulbright, Jimmy Byrnes, Hugo Black, Ernest
> > Hollings, Sam Ervin, Richard Russell, George Wallace, Orval Faubus,
> > Lester Maddox, etc, etc, etc, all have in common?
> 
> All of them represented former Confederate States of America in the 
> United States Senate or House of Representatives.
> 
> > Heres a hint for the slow, the young, and those with an excess of   
> > sanctamony, it wasn't an R following their names.
> 
> If R is taken to mean "Regional South", former CSA states, it reflects 
> a commonality with a substantial impact on the vote distribution.
> 
> Vote totals for the 1964 Civil Rights Act (in "Yea-Nay" format):
> 
>     * The original House version: 290-130   (69%-31%)
>     * Cloture in the Senate: 71-29   (71%-29%)
>     * The Senate version: 73-27   (73%-27%)
>     * The Senate version, as voted on by the House: 289-126   
> (70%-30%)
> 
> Regional area of origin rather than party affiliation strongly 
> determined voting behavior of the federal legislators:
> 
> "Southern" refers to members of Congress from the eleven states that 
> made up the Confederate States of America in the American Civil 
> War. "Northern" refers to members from the other 39 states, 
> regardless of the geographic location of those states.
> 
> The original House version:
> 
>     * Southern Democrats: 7-87   (7%-93%)
>     * Southern Republicans: 0-10   (0%-100%)
> 
>     * Northern Democrats: 145-9   (94%-6%)
>     * Northern Republicans: 138-24   (85%-15%)
> 
> The Senate version:
> 
>     * Southern Democrats: 1-20   (5%-95%) (only Senator Ralph 
> Yarborough of Texas voted in favor)
>     * Southern Republicans: 0-1   (0%-100%) (this was Senator John 
> Tower of Texas)
>     * Northern Democrats: 45-1   (98%-2%) (only Senator Robert Byrd of 
> West Virginia opposed the measure)
>     * Northern Republicans: 27-5   (84%-16%) (Senators Barry Goldwater 
> of Arizona, Bourke Hickenlooper of Iowa, Edwin L. Mechem of New 
> Mexico, Milward L. Simpson of Wyoming, and Norris H. Cotton of New 
> Hampshire opposed the measure)
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964 
> 
> 
> Ken
> 
> 
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