ETA; according to this information ...Dr. Alveda King, says "Planned Parenthood Lied to Me" in the early 1970's about her abortions.
CNSNews.com - MLK?s Niece: Planned Parenthood Lied to Me

I am not arguing the "abortion issue" just pointing out what she is know for.[/quote]


The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was not pushed through by Eisenhowerm but, by LBJ while in the Senate. It had no teeth and addressed the tight for blacks to vote.

We shall agree that Warren was a good choice for the Supreme Court.

I have read that Kennedy certainly supported Civil Rights but did not have the nerve to fight for them.

However, both JFK and did intervene while King was in the Birmingham Jail.

No one has done more than LBJ in the fight for Civil Rights. He took on the Klan through the FBI (It helped that Hoover had died). It was Hoover who tapped King's phones because, you know, he, like all community organizers, was considered a subversive.

Kennedy established Affirmative Action in 1961 through executive order 10925. Nixon adopted it as a federal policy in

The South started to shift to the GOP in 1965 after passage of the Civil Rights Act. Blacks began to migrate to the Democratic Party. After the Act was ammended in 1968, the switch was complete.

Nixon had his own Karl Rove, Kevin Phillips, who implemented the "Southern Strategy." Lee Atwater, Reagan's Rove, described it like this:
" Atwater: As to the whole Southern strategy that Harry Dent and others put together in 1968, opposition to the Voting Rights Act would have been a central part of keeping the South. Now [the new Southern Strategy of Ronald Reagan] doesn’t have to do that. All you have to do to keep the South is for Reagan to run in place on the issues he’s campaigned on since 1964… and that’s fiscal conservatism, balancing the budget, cut taxes, you know, the whole cluster...

Questioner: But the fact is, isn’t it, that Reagan does get to the Wallace voter and to the racist side of the Wallace voter by doing away with legal services, by cutting down on food stamps...?

Atwater: You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can't say “nigger”—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites.

And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me—because obviously sitting around saying, “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger."

Georgia has been a GOP stronghold as has Louisianna for decades.

Today, you would call Earl Warren, Eisenhower, Goldwater and Nixon "Rinos".