Strom Thurmond crossed the aisle in September, 1964, only a couple of months after the Civil Rights Act was signed into law.

“On June 17, the Senate voted by a 76 to 18 margin to adopt the bipartisan substitute worked out by Dirksen in his office in May and to give the bill its third reading. Two days later, the Senate passed the bill by a 73 to 27 roll call vote. Six Republicans and 21 Democrats held firm and voted against passage.

Only one Democratic Senator who voted against civil rights shifted allegiances to the Republicans … Most democrats who opposed civil rights such as Albert Gore Sr., J. William Fulbright, and … Robert C. Byrd … The vast majority of southern segregationist did not become Republicans.

So, I repeat:
Which Democratic politicians who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, went on to become Republicans?
Which Democratic politicians who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, lost their seats in the next election?

Say it all you want, but it just ain’t so!

The right to self-defense absolutely uplifts the human personality.

First of all, anyone who needs a gun to have personality needs help.

Secondly, swords are MUCH more bad-ass than guns. =P

Since you pass yourself as having so much knowledge of American politics, I ask you, NG, or anyone else who cares to answer:
Which Democratic politicians who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, went on to become Republicans?
Which Democratic politicians who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, lost their seats in the next election?
Surely it was a lot, no, what with all the southern racists abandoning the Democrats?

Democrat != liberal. Just ask Joe LIeberman or Zell Miller.

“Racists will probably find that they feel quite comfortable in the Republican Party” is an accurate statement.

I’m not so sure if [then] Gov. Reagan referred to Martin Luther King’s civil disobedience, or even the civil disobedience in which so many people participated.

I remember reading a blurb for a “conservative’s” book about MLK, Jr. that said, “Everywhere he spoke there were riots afterward” (obviously an exaggeration, but it is not a stretch to make a connection between the calls to equality, and the frustration that leads to violence).

I must confess that I am not familiar enough with all of Dr. King’s speeches and writings to be sure that he did, indeed, preach or advocate nonviolence. I only know, for sure, that he acted in a nonviolent way, and demonstrated nonviolently.

Of course, the idea that conservatives are racist is nonsense, as is the idea that Republicans are.

Anyone who has read “The Making of the President 1968″, or “The Emerging Republican Majority”, knows that it was the Democrats’ opposition to the war / pandering to the New Left that got the voters who had voted for Wallace in 1968 (about 11%, if I recall) to vote for Nixon in 1972.

To this day, there are still people who believe that if Wallace had not run, Humphrey would have got those votes and beat Nixon. That’s why they ran an anti – war liberal (McGovern) in 1972. Race was certainly not an issue then; Vietnam was — hence, the drubbing McGovern took…

Sp I take it that you oppose any and all gun control legislation, Oliver?

The right to self-defense absolutely uplifts the human personality.