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Civil Rights Movement (view source)
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*1957: Republican President Dwight Eisenhower order federal troops to take over Arkansas National Guard which Democrat Gov. [[Orval Faubus]] used to prevent black children to attend public school. Eisenhower ordered the [[101st Airborne Division]] to escort the children passed protesters.
*1957: Republican President Dwight Eisenhower order federal troops to take over Arkansas National Guard which Democrat Gov. [[Orval Faubus]] used to prevent black children to attend public school. Eisenhower ordered the [[101st Airborne Division]] to escort the children passed protesters.
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*1964: Civil Rights Act ending segregation and voter restrictions is passed with 80% of Republicans in the House and 82% in the Senate voting yes, but only 63% of Democrats voting yes in the House and 69% in the Senate. Democrats [[filibuster]]ed for 83 days. After passing the Civil Rights Act, Democratic president [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] brags "I'll have those n****** voting Democratic for the next 200 years."<ref>The Relentless Conservative (2011, August 24). [https://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-relentless-conservative/the-democratic-partys-two_b_933995.html The Democratic Party's Two-Facedness of Race Relations]. The Huffington Post.</ref>
*1964: Civil Rights Act ending segregation and voter restrictions is passed with 80% of Republicans in the House and 82% in the Senate voting yes, but only 63% of Democrats voting yes in the House and 69% in the Senate. Democrats [[filibuster]]ed for 83 days. After passing the Civil Rights Act, [[Democratic party]] president [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] brags "I'll have those n****** voting Democratic for the next 200 years."<ref>The Relentless Conservative (2011, August 24). [https://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-relentless-conservative/the-democratic-partys-two_b_933995.html The Democratic Party's Two-Facedness of Race Relations]. The Huffington Post.</ref>
*1965: Voting Rights Act passed to remove [[racial]] voter discriminations against [[blacks]] and [[Hispanic]]s with 82% of Republicans voting yes to 78% of Democrats in the House, and 94% of Republicans in the Senate to 73% of Democrats in the Senate.
*1965: Voting Rights Act passed to remove [[racial]] voter discriminations against [[blacks]] and [[Hispanic]]s with 82% of Republicans voting yes to 78% of Democrats in the House, and 94% of Republicans in the Senate to 73% of Democrats in the Senate.
*1973: Only 2 of the 112 Democrats who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 actually switched to the Republican Party, John Jarman and Strom Thurmond. All the racist Democrats who had opposed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s were the same ones who in the 1970s supported ''[[Roe v. Wade]]''. They went straight from supporting [[segregation]] to supporting [[abortion]].
*1973: Only 2 of the 112 Democrats who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 actually switched to the Republican Party, John Jarman and Strom Thurmond. All the racist Democrats who had opposed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s were the same ones who in the 1970s supported ''[[Roe v. Wade]]''. They went straight from supporting [[segregation]] to supporting [[abortion]].