{"id":287,"date":"2010-03-29T22:14:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T22:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mixermuse.com\/blog\/?p=287"},"modified":"2014-11-15T10:12:02","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T17:12:02","slug":"the-democrats-filibustered-the-civil-rights-act-of-1964-and-performed-southern-lynching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/civil-rights\/the-democrats-filibustered-the-civil-rights-act-of-1964-and-performed-southern-lynching\/","title":{"rendered":"The Democrats Filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Performed Southern Lynching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next time you hear this please do NOT let them get away from the \u201crest of the story\u201d.\u00a0 Both statements above are true.\u00a0 After the Civil War, Southerners hated Republicans (remember Lincoln).\u00a0 They also fought against blacks in the Civil War.\u00a0 The Union used Northern blacks and Southern blacks that escaped slavery.\u00a0 This is why Southerners were Democrats after the Civil War in large numbers.\u00a0 In 1964, the Dixiecrats (Southern Democrats) hated integration (remember busing).\u00a0 They opposed Civil Rights in large numbers.\u00a0 The real issue with Civil Rights was NOT Democrat versus Republican \u2013 it was North versus South.\u00a0\u00a0 See the numbers folks: <a href=\"http:\/\/mixermuse.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/15\/of-all-the-varieties-of-virtues-liberalism-is-the-most-beloved-aristotle\/\">http:\/\/mixermuse.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/15\/of-all-the-varieties-of-virtues-liberalism-is-the-most-beloved-aristotle\/<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>After the Civil Rights Act\u00a0of 1964, the Dixiecrats joined the Republican Party in mass.\u00a0 Why do you think they did this?\u00a0 They found their true ideological home with the Republicans.\u00a0 The big, bad, evil Federal Government was forcing their kids to go to school with blacks.\u00a0 Many states in the South are still very Republican.\u00a0 If Civil Rights happened today without everything that has happened since 1964, the Republicans in the South would oppose it.\u00a0 They might know how to keep their mouth shut now but speaking as one from Louisiana, the Dixiecrats are Republican now and have learned to keep their bigotry to themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next time you hear this please do NOT let them get away from the \u201crest of the story\u201d.\u00a0 Both statements above are true.\u00a0 After the Civil War, Southerners hated Republicans (remember Lincoln).\u00a0 They also fought against blacks in the Civil War.\u00a0 The Union used Northern blacks and Southern blacks that escaped slavery.\u00a0 This is why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,16,18,19],"tags":[235,71,74,156,185,206],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-myths-exposed","category-politics","category-republicans","category-war","tag-civil-rights","tag-democrat","tag-dixiecrat","tag-north","tag-republican","tag-south"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3927,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/3927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}