Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:42 PM 2/9/03 -0800, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >The "states rights" thing did start out, Marc, I just read with Tricky >Dick when he was first running for President everyone wanted to know >which side he'd take on the Civil rights issue which was up there on >peoples minds and how he'd handle it. Mark You have your facts sadly in error here. Strom Thurmond ran for President in 1948 on the "States Rights Party" platform, and ran on only three issues: retention of segregation, reduction of the Federal government, and a strong, anti-Communist foreign policy. That is where the confusion between "states' rights" and "racism" arose. But, just because the term might have occasionally been used as a "code word" (which I seriously doubt, despite the claims of the Left) does not, of course, mean that there is no validity to the concept. Nixon actually supported the early Civil Rights bills as did the national Republican Party. While the Republican Party in the early 1960's was thundering for states' rights, it was the Republicans in Congress who got the Civil Rights legislation passed. A large percentage of the Democrats voted against these bills and not necessarily those just from Southern states. Marc msmall@infi.net FAX: +276/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html