Posted on 04/02/2010 12:53:08 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Of course, Obama isn’t a person. He’s a demographic.
Greed! ;)
“There weren’t any. Period. There not even any Southern Republican political office holders at the time. From Virginia to Texas, it was all Dems all the time.”
Are you sure about that?
Georgia didn’t have a Republican congressman until Bo Callaway in 1966. He later ran for governor in a 3 way race and won a plurality, but not a majority, so the election went to the GA legislature, which appointed Lester Maddox (which actually didn’t turn out too badly, considering). It seems there were a few Repubs scattered around (ten out of HOW many?) but I imagine they were mostly in metro areas and border states. The Republican Party was completely non-viable in most of the south until Reagan.
Truman.
"She said, 'You and Helene are coming to the state dinner as guests of President Reagan and myself,' " he recounted in the Post interview. Mr. Allen thought he was the first butler to receive an invitation to a state dinner. He and Helene -- she was a beautiful dresser -- looked resplendent that night. The butlers on duty seemed to pay special attention to the couple as they poured champagne for guests -- champagne that Mr. Allen himself had stacked in the kitchen.
We used to have a lot of class in our White House..sigh.
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Thanks, I thought it stated he started with Eisenhower.
The point is that Civil Rights and desegregation was primarily a regional issue and not a party issue as almost all Democrats and all Republicans in the South were opposed to Civil Rights and desegregation while Democrats and Republicans from other regions supported Civil Rights and desegregation.
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