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Originally Posted by WTF
The Progressive Party of the 1860-1960 was the GOP. This changed after 1960 and the Progressive Party switched to the Democratic Party.
So Progressives have always been for equality
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ANother lie told by liberals... but I mean what else do liberals do? They have to lie to the American people because if people understood them for who they are they'd be strung up from the nearest lamp post like Mussolini.
In 1960, Democrats held every Senate seat south of the Mason-Dixon line. In the House, in the 13 states that made up the Confederacy, Democrats held a 117-8 advantage. Those 117 House members constituted 41% of Democrats' 283-153 advantage in the Chamber.
The 1964 Civil Rights act was supported by 80% of House Republicans, compared to 61% of Democrats. In the Senate 82% of Republicans supported it, compared with 69% of Democrats.
Of the 21 Democrats in the Senate opposed the Civil Rights Act, only one of them, "Dixiecrat" Strom Thurmond, ever became a Republican. The rest, including Al Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd--a former Exalted Cyclops in the Ku Klux Klan--
remained Democrats until the day they died.
Of those 20 lifelong Democrats retired, their Senate seats remained in Democrat hands for several decades afterwards. So too did the overwhelming majority of the House seats in the South until 1994, when a Republican wave election swept the GOP into control of the House for the first time since 1952.
1994 was also the first time Republicans ever held a majority of House seats in the South--a full 30 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act.
So it's not that the Democrats and Republicans switched... the Republicans just gained power in the South.
