Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc Whatever the history of the phrase, it is indisputable that today, at least in the Deep South, it IS very much a code word for supporting the good old days when blacks knew that their place was in the back of the bus. I lived in North Florida (the part of that state that is part of the South, as opposed to South Florida) from 1984 to 1990, and can assure you that everyone there knew what "states' rights" meant, and there sure was nothing libertarian about it... Nathan Marc James Small wrote: > 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 > > - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch mobile: +41 78 732 1430 Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2003.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html