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Originally Posted by smoothmoniker
1957 – Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act
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Over a record-setting filibuster by Dixiecrat
Strom Thurmond who switched parties to Republican when he realized that the Democratic party would not support segregation.
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On the second day of the convention, as I went walking through one of those huge Miami Beach hotels, I heard Thurmond speak to an audience of Southerners. The gist of Thurmond's message was clear: You Southern Republicans want to vote for Reagan because he's the true conservative, but stick with Nixon on the first ballot because he has promised, if elected, to stop enforcing the Civil Rights and Voting Right Acts of 1964 and 1965. (So far as any of us knew,
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Let's face it, which party in this election is going to get the Klan and Nazi vote? The Republicans may have a big tent, but it's not big enough to hold both the KKK and the NAACP.
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