11-06-2011, 03:08 PM
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: West Coast, Canada.
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Originally Posted by raymor
Look it up. Democrats, like senate majority leader and elected KKK leader Robert Byrd, filibustered the civil rights act of 1964. In the 1860s, it was all about Democrats trying to prevent black people from voting.
KKK Grand Wizard Nathan Forrest stated in an interview that the clan opposition was "the Loyal Leagues, Republican state governments, people like Tennessee governor Brownlow and other carpetbaggers and scalawags."
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Note: "Southern", as used in this section, 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%)
Southern Republicans: 0–1 (0%–100%)
Northern Democrats: 45-1 (98%–2%)
Northern Republicans: 27-5 (84%–16%)
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Somehow I doubt it had much to do with whether or not they were democratic or republican and more about whether they were from the south or not... i.e. the people that would vote for them. |
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