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Re: Colin Powell's Former Chief Of Staff: 'My Party Is Full Of Racists'

By: tkc in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Sun, 28 Oct 12 8:03 PM | 54 view(s)
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Fair enough CSL. I'm no expert either but I suggest your total vote statistics fail to portray the regional representation. Remember the "south" was democratic then - solidly so. Southern democrats that voted for civil rights were soon voted out and blue ran red from then on.


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Re: Colin Powell's Former Chief Of Staff: 'My Party Is Full Of Racists'
By: xcslewis in ALEA
Sun, 28 Oct 12 7:42 PM 		Msg. 11103 of 54959

Hi tkc,

I don't pretend to be an expert but;

Civil Rights Act of 1964 Vote totals

Totals are in "Yea Nay" format:

The original House version: 290 to 130 (69 to 31%).

Cloture in the Senate: 71 to 29 (71 to 29%).

The Senate version: 73 to 27 (73 to 27%).

The Senate version, as voted on by the House: 289 to 126 (70 to 30%).


By partyThe original House version:

Democratic Party: 152 to 96 (61 to 39%)
Republican Party: 138 to 34 (80 to 20%)

Cloture in the Senate:

Democratic Party: 44 to 23 (66 to 34%)
Republican Party: 27 to 6 (82 to 18%)

The Senate version:

Democratic Party: 46 to 21 (69 to 31%)
Republican Party: 27 t0 6 (82 to 18%)

The Senate version, voted on by the House:

Democratic Party: 153 to 91 (63 to 37%)
Republican Party: 136 to 35 (80 to 20%)


Lincoln was not the man you think he was.


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