Southern Strategy

[alvarezadams]

This is what yoy get when you embrace Dixiecrats and let them run your party:

"House delays renewal of Voting Rights Act

WASHINGTON - House Republican leaders on Wednesday postponed a vote on renewing the 1965 Voting Rights Act after GOP lawmakers complained it unfairly singles out nine Southern states for federal oversight.

"We have time to address their concerns," Republican leaders said in a joint statement. "Therefore, the House Republican Leadership will offer members the time needed to evaluate the legislation."

It was unclear whether the legislation would come up this year. The temporary provisions don't expire until 2007, but leaders of both parties had hoped to pass the act and use it to further their prospects in the fall's midterm elections.

The statement said the GOP leaders are committed to renewing the law "as soon as possible."

The four-decade-old law enfranchised millions of black voters by ending poll taxes and literacy tests during the height of the civil rights struggle. A vote on renewing it for another 25 years had been scheduled for Wednesday, with both Republican and Democratic leaders behind it.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060621/ap_on_go_co/voting_rights_act

Do think - these folks still stand for "States Rights" - a euphemism for racism since Jefferson Davis' day.

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[OKNancy]

1. This is Republican action, not Democrats

( or even Southern Democrats for that matter)
So called "Dixiecrats" had nothing to do with this. All I see are Republican names in this story.

[alvarezadams]

5. Uh...

... what are known as Dixiecrats abandoned the DNC over the 1960's-70's. They are now Repubs.

[meow2u3]

2. If the Dixiecons want to play dirty, two can play that game, too

If the Dixiecons want to bring back literacy tests, we can do that, too. All we have to do is make the redneck righties pass their literacy test in French, Spanish, or even Arabic--just to embarrass them and expose them as the xenophobic racists they are. IMO, racists shouldn't be allowed to vote, much less run this country!

[Bluzmann57]

3. The first sentence of your post

needs to be amended. Otherwise people may think you're both anti-South as well as not very aware of who's who among Democrats and Republicans. And I live in Iowa, where (unfortunately) King lives, although he sure as hell ain't the rep here, and we are certainly a northern state. And Alaska is a lot farther north than we are. Just sayin'. But just clear things up. Every lawmaker mentioned in the article, except Conyers, is a republican. And Conyers is in no way in favor of this bill.

[alvarezadams]

6. Clarification

"Otherwise people may think you're both anti-South as well as not very aware of who's who among Democrats and Republicans."

The term "Dixiecrat" refers specifically to the group of conservative Dems that abandoned the party in the 1960's-70's, and has nothing to do with today's Southern Dems.

FYI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy,

"The term has also been used to refer to conservative white Southerners who remain within the Democratic Party, and those who were formerly Democrats but now identify as Republicans."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixiecrats

[AndyTiedye]

4. Make it 9 Southen States and Ohio, Then

GOP lawmakers complained it unfairly singles out nine Southern states for federal oversight.