Are they still trying to preach that load of bullshit?
http://www.black-and-right.com/2010/03/19/the-dixiecrat-myth/
Not to mention the fact that the democrats have ALWAYS had a pathetic record on
civil rights:
October 13, 1858
During Lincoln-Douglas debates, U.S. Senator Stephen Douglas (D-IL) states:
“I do not regard the Negro as my equal, and positively deny that he is my
brother, or any kin to me whatever”; Douglas became Democratic Party’s 1860
presidential nominee
April 16, 1862
President Lincoln signs bill abolishing slavery in District of Columbia; in
Congress, 99% of Republicans vote yes, 83% of Democrats vote no
July 17, 1862
Over unanimous Democrat opposition, Republican Congress passes Confiscation
Act stating that slaves of the Confederacy “shall be forever free”
January 31, 1865
13th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. House with unanimous
Republican support, intense Democrat opposition
April 8, 1865
13th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. Senate with 100% Republican
support, 63% Democrat opposition
November 22, 1865
Republicans denounce Democrat legislature of Mississippi for enacting “black
codes,” which institutionalized racial discrimination
February 5, 1866
U.S. Rep. Thaddeus Stevens (R-PA) introduces legislation, successfully
opposed by Democrat President Andrew Johnson, to implement “40 acres and a mule”
relief by distributing land to former slaves
April 9, 1866
Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Johnson’s veto; Civil
Rights Act of 1866, conferring rights of citizenship on African-Americans,
becomes law
May 10, 1866
U.S. House passes Republicans’ 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process and
equal protection of the laws to all citizens; 100% of Democrats vote no
June 8, 1866
U.S. Senate passes Republicans’ 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process and
equal protection of the law to all citizens; 94% of Republicans vote yes and
100% of Democrats vote no.
January 8, 1867
Republicans override Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of law
granting voting rights to African-Americans in D.C.
July 19, 1867
Republican Congress overrides Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto of
legislation protecting voting rights of African-Americans
March 30, 1868
Republicans begin impeachment trial of Democrat President Andrew Johnson,
who declared: “This is a country for white men, and by God, as long as I am
President, it shall be a government of white men”
September 12, 1868
Civil rights activist Tunis Campbell and 24 other African-Americans in
Georgia Senate, every one a Republican, expelled by Democrat majority; would
later be reinstated by Republican Congress
October 7, 1868
Republicans denounce Democratic Party’s national campaign theme: “This is a
white man’s country: Let white men rule”
October 22, 1868
While campaigning for re-election, Republican U.S. Rep. James Hinds (R-AR)
is assassinated by Democrat terrorists who organized as the Ku Klux Klan
December 10, 1869
Republican Gov. John Campbell of Wyoming Territory signs FIRST-in-nation law
granting women right to vote and to hold public office
February 3, 1870
After passing House with 98% Republican support and 97% Democrat opposition,
Republicans’ 15th Amendment is ratified, granting vote to all Americans
regardless of race
May 31, 1870
President U.S. Grant signs Republicans’ Enforcement Act, providing stiff
penalties for depriving any American’s civil rights
June 22, 1870
Republican Congress creates U.S. Department of Justice, to safeguard the
civil rights of African-Americans against Democrats in the South
September 6, 1870
Women vote in Wyoming, in FIRST election after women’s suffrage signed into
law by Republican Gov. John Campbell
February 28, 1871
Republican Congress passes Enforcement Act providing federal protection for
African-American voters
April 20, 1871
Republican Congress enacts the Ku Klux Klan Act, outlawing Democratic
Party-affiliated terrorist groups which oppressed African-Americans
October 10, 1871
Following warnings by Philadelphia Democrats against black voting,
African-American Republican civil rights activist Octavius Catto murdered by
Democratic Party operative; his military funeral was attended by thousands
October 18, 1871
After violence against Republicans in South Carolina, President Ulysses
Grant deploys U.S. troops to combat Democrat terrorists who formed the Ku Klux
Klan
November 18, 1872
Susan B. Anthony arrested for voting, after boasting to Elizabeth Cady
Stanton that she voted for “the Republican ticket, straight”
January 17, 1874
Armed Democrats seize Texas state government, ending Republican efforts to
racially integrate government
September 14, 1874
Democrat white supremacists seize Louisiana statehouse in attempt to
overthrow racially-integrated administration of Republican Governor William
Kellogg; 27 killed
March 1, 1875
Civil Rights Act of 1875, guaranteeing access to public accommodations
without regard to race, signed by Republican President U.S. Grant; passed with
92% Republican support over 100% Democrat opposition
January 10, 1878
U.S. Senator Aaron Sargent (R-CA) introduces Susan B. Anthony amendment for
women’s suffrage; Democrat-controlled Senate defeated it 4 times before election
of Republican House and Senate guaranteed its approval in 1919. Republicans foil
Democratic efforts to keep women in the kitchen, where they belong
February 8, 1894
Democrat Congress and Democrat President Grover Cleveland join to repeal
Republicans’ Enforcement Act, which had enabled African-Americans to vote
January 15, 1901
Republican Booker T. Washington protests Alabama Democratic Party’s refusal
to permit voting by African-Americans
May 29, 1902
Virginia Democrats implement new state constitution, condemned by
Republicans as illegal, reducing African-American voter registration by 86%
February 12, 1909
On 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, African-American
Republicans and women’s suffragists Ida Wells and Mary Terrell co-found the
NAACP
May 21, 1919
Republican House passes constitutional amendment granting women the vote
with 85% of Republicans in favor, but only 54% of Democrats; in Senate, 80% of
Republicans would vote yes, but almost half of Democrats no
August 18, 1920
Republican-authored 19th Amendment, giving women the vote, becomes part of
Constitution; 26 of the 36 states to ratify had Republican-controlled
legislatures
January 26, 1922
House passes bill authored by U.S. Rep. Leonidas Dyer (R-MO) making lynching
a federal crime; Senate Democrats block it with filibuster
June 2, 1924
Republican President Calvin Coolidge signs bill passed by Republican
Congress granting U.S. citizenship to all Native Americans
October 3, 1924
Republicans denounce three-time Democrat presidential nominee William
Jennings Bryan for defending the Ku Klux Klan at 1924 Democratic National
Convention
June 12, 1929
First Lady Lou Hoover invites wife of U.S. Rep. Oscar De Priest (R-IL), an
African-American, to tea at the White House, sparking protests by Democrats
across the country
August 17, 1937
Republicans organize opposition to former Ku Klux Klansman and Democrat U.S.
Senator Hugo Black, appointed to U.S. Supreme Court by FDR; his Klan background
was hidden until after confirmation
June 24, 1940
Republican Party platform calls for integration of the armed forces; for the
balance of his terms in office, FDR refuses to order it
August 8, 1945
Republicans condemn Harry Truman’s surprise use of the atomic bomb in Japan.
The whining and criticism goes on for years. It begins two days after the
Hiroshima bombing, when former Republican President Herbert Hoover writes to a
friend that “The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of
women and children, revolts my soul.”
September 30, 1953
Earl Warren, California’s three-term Republican Governor and 1948 Republican
vice presidential nominee, nominated to be Chief Justice; wrote landmark
decision in Brown v. Board of Education
November 25, 1955
Eisenhower administration bans racial segregation of interstate bus travel
March 12, 1956
Ninety-seven Democrats in Congress condemn Supreme Court’s decision in Brown
v. Board of Education, and pledge to continue segregation
June 5, 1956
Republican federal judge Frank Johnson rules in favor of Rosa Parks in
decision striking down “blacks in the back of the bus” law
November 6, 1956
African-American civil rights leaders Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy
vote for Republican Dwight Eisenhower for President
September 9, 1957
President Dwight Eisenhower signs Republican Party’s 1957 Civil Rights Act
September 24, 1957
Sparking criticism from Democrats such as Senators John Kennedy and Lyndon
Johnson, President Dwight Eisenhower deploys the 82nd Airborne Division to
Little Rock, AR to force Democrat Governor Orval Faubus to integrate public
schools
May 6, 1960
President Dwight Eisenhower signs Republicans’ Civil Rights Act of 1960,
overcoming 125-hour, around-the-clock filibuster by 18 Senate Democrats
May 2, 1963
Republicans condemn Democrat sheriff of Birmingham, AL for arresting over
2,000 African-American schoolchildren marching for their civil rights
September 29, 1963
Gov. George Wallace (D-AL) defies order by U.S. District Judge Frank
Johnson, appointed by President Dwight Eisenhower, to integrate Tuskegee High
School
June 9, 1964
Republicans condemn 14-hour filibuster against 1964 Civil Rights Act by U.S.
Senator and former Ku Klux Klansman Robert Byrd (D-WV), who still serves in the
Senate
June 10, 1964
Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) criticizes Democrat filibuster
against 1964 Civil Rights Act, calls on Democrats to stop opposing racial
equality. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was introduced and approved by a
staggering majority of Republicans in the Senate. The Act was opposed by most
southern Democrat senators, several of whom were proud segregationists—one of
them being Al Gore Sr. Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson relied on Illinois
Senator Everett Dirksen, the Republican leader from Illinois, to get the Act
passed.
August 4, 1965
Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) overcomes Democrat attempts
to block 1965 Voting Rights Act; 94% of Senate Republicans vote for landmark
civil right legislation, while 27% of Democrats oppose. Voting Rights Act of
1965, abolishing literacy tests and other measures devised by Democrats to
prevent African-Americans from voting, signed into law; higher percentage of
Republicans than Democrats vote in favor
February 19, 1976
President Gerald Ford formally rescinds President Franklin Roosevelt’s
notorious Executive Order authorizing internment of over 120,000
Japanese-Americans during WWII
September 15, 1981
President Ronald Reagan establishes the White House Initiative on
Historically Black Colleges and Universities, to increase African-American
participation in federal education programs
June 29, 1982
President Ronald Reagan signs 25-year extension of 1965 Voting Rights Act
August 10, 1988
President Ronald Reagan signs Civil Liberties Act of 1988, compensating
Japanese-Americans for deprivation of civil rights and property during World War
II internment ordered by FDR
November 21, 1991
President George H. W. Bush signs Civil Rights Act of 1991 to strengthen
federal civil rights legislation
August 20, 1996
Bill authored by U.S. Rep. Susan Molinari (R-NY) to prohibit racial
discrimination in adoptions, part of Republicans’ Contract With America, becomes
law
And let’s not forget the words of liberal icon Margaret Sanger, founder of
Planned Parenthood…
We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with
social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful
educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want
the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population….
So the next time any Democrat claims they’ve been supportive of civil rights in
America (and been so all along), ask them to explain their past. “We’ve grown”
is not gonna cut it, considering they continue to lie about their past to this
day, and only someone lacking in common sense would believe two distinct
political parties could juxtaposition their stances on civil rights seemingly
overnight.