I suspect that you are incorrect. I'm all about individual rights and property rights, etc. However, in this instance, the subject is larger than a debate such as allowing or not allowing smoking in one’s restaurant. Refusing blacks the right to sit at a lunch counter because it's private property had to be addressed. What I am wondering is how is it that when conservatives catch a tail wind and have an opportunity to make some gains they instinctively blow their feet clean off. To put it more simply, why did Rand Paul feel the necessity to be stupid?
You really believe there would be whites only resturants all across America if nanny hadn’t put a stop to it?
In 1960 Richard Nixon got about one third of the Black vote. In 1964 Goldwater got less than ten percent. Why? Goldwater came out against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. You don’t have to support affirmative action to affirm the rights of an average American to be treated decently. Goldwater was not a racist and later recanted his stand on the Civil Rights Act. But the damage had been done.