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*[http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_was_the_Southern_Manifesto What was the Southern Manifesto?], a document written in 1956 by legislators of United States Congress opposing racial integration in public places signed by ninety-four Democratic lawmakers; there were no Republican senators at that time from the former [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] states. Two House Republicans from [[Virginia]] were the only members of their party to sign the manifesto.
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*[http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_was_the_Southern_Manifesto What was the Southern Manifesto?], a document written in 1956 and signed by ninety-six members of the United States Congress opposing racial integration in public places. All  signers were Democrats except for two Republican U.S. representatives from [[Virginia]]. At the time all twenty-two U.S. senators from the former [[Confederate States of America|Confederacy]] were Democrats. There were no Republican senators from the South until [[John Tower]] won a special election in Texas in 1961.
    
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