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Were Republicans really the party of civil rights in the 1960s?
Harry J Enten
Once you control for region, it turns out that Democrats were actually more likely to support the 1964 Civil Rights Act
• Civil rights stories: "Such struggles are never over"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/28/march-on-washington-anniversary-civil-rights
Civil rights protestors are attacked with a water cannon.
Photograph: Getty Images
Wednesday 28 August 2013 23.15 AEST
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In this case, it becomes clear that Democrats in the north and the south were more likely to vote for the bill than Republicans in the north and south respectively. This difference in both houses is statistically significant with over 95% confidence. It just so happened southerners made up a larger percentage of the Democratic than Republican caucus, which created the initial impression than Republicans were more in favor of the act.
Nearly 100% of Union state Democrats supported the 1964 Civil Rights Act compared to 85% of Republicans. None of the southern Republicans voted for the bill, while a small percentage of southern Democrats did.
The same pattern holds true when looking at ideology instead of party affiliation. The folks over at Voteview.com, who created DW-nominate scores to measure the ideology of congressmen and senators, found that the more liberal a congressman or senator was the more likely he would vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, once one controlled for a factor closely linked to geography.
More with links .. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/28/republicans-party-of-civil-rights
.. i'm feeling that article puts a bit of a question mark over the idea that the Democrats were not the
party of civil rights back in the 60s .. hope the article is as interesting for you as it was for me ..
Harry J Enten
Once you control for region, it turns out that Democrats were actually more likely to support the 1964 Civil Rights Act
• Civil rights stories: "Such struggles are never over"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/28/march-on-washington-anniversary-civil-rights
Civil rights protestors are attacked with a water cannon.
Photograph: Getty Images
Wednesday 28 August 2013 23.15 AEST
[...]
In this case, it becomes clear that Democrats in the north and the south were more likely to vote for the bill than Republicans in the north and south respectively. This difference in both houses is statistically significant with over 95% confidence. It just so happened southerners made up a larger percentage of the Democratic than Republican caucus, which created the initial impression than Republicans were more in favor of the act.
Nearly 100% of Union state Democrats supported the 1964 Civil Rights Act compared to 85% of Republicans. None of the southern Republicans voted for the bill, while a small percentage of southern Democrats did.
The same pattern holds true when looking at ideology instead of party affiliation. The folks over at Voteview.com, who created DW-nominate scores to measure the ideology of congressmen and senators, found that the more liberal a congressman or senator was the more likely he would vote for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, once one controlled for a factor closely linked to geography.
More with links .. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/28/republicans-party-of-civil-rights
.. i'm feeling that article puts a bit of a question mark over the idea that the Democrats were not the
party of civil rights back in the 60s .. hope the article is as interesting for you as it was for me ..
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