*[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. | *[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. |