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Originally Posted by Brujah
If you can't acknowledge that it was a Northern vs Southern issue, then you're just refusing to accept the truths.
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It was both. It wasn't just northern for, southern opposed. More NORTHERN democrats opposed it than SOUTHERN republicans. You want to talk about the south? Twenty southern democrats opposed. One southern republican opposed.
In total, 37% of democrats opposed, 20% of republicans - democrats were twice as likely to oppose civil rights than republicans were. It's convenient, if you're a democrat, to call it a southern thing and ignore the reason the south, built on slaves, elected democrats. Because they south was (and still is) racist, they do three things:
burn crosses
lynch blacks
elect democrats
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