Wednesday, November 19, 2008

You can thank the GOP for racial progress

The two most important pieces of domestic legislation in my lifetime (I’m 60) were the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Question: Members of which party voted for them in higher proportions, Republicans or Democrats?

I suspect only a small slice of Americans knows it was Republicans, and by significant margins.

[Q2: how do you think this issue is portrayed in our public schools?]

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