I’m leaving the Republican Party. No longer can I say with a clear conscience that the Republican Party is focused on solving problems that will benefit average Americans.
Solving problems is about pragmatically viewing data to decide upon the most effective public policy solutions. Many times, problem solving is the complete opposite of adhering to a rigid political ideology that dictates policy regardless of consequences. Our public servants need to be looking at what has worked, what has not worked, and using those judgments to form policy moving forward. The Republican Party refuses to look at what works and what doesn’t — they simply base policy on whether it fits into a rigid anti-government philosophy, whether it is good policy or not. Essentially, the effectiveness of policy is completely and totally irrelevant to Republicans. Additionally, the Republican Party believes more strongly in obstructing anything that President Obama proposes than in real solutions that would create jobs and help the average American.
Additionally, I have specific grievances with the current “know-nothing” incarnation of the Republican Party:
- The Republican Party refuses to give full rights and liberty to same sex couples.
- The Republican Party refuses to craft real solutions to the problem of high healthcare costs. Our healthcare costs are the highest in the world, and rising. Our public servants need to be developing solutions that bring heathcare costs into line with the rest of the world.
- The Republican Party refuses to acknowledge the individual rights of women to control their own medical decisions and body.
- The Republican Party refuses to address the real solutions towards lowering the deficit. Any person who says they would oppose a plan that contains a ratio of $10 in spending cutsfor every $1 in tax increases simply does not have enough of an education in economics to participate in the discussion.
Even worse, the Republican Party has bamboozled the American people by portraying themselves as the party of fiscal responsibility. Any person who can recognize that some numbers are larger than other numbers know the obvious fact that the biggest spending Presidents are Republicans. Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush alone are responsible for most of the national debt. Bill Clinton cut government and actually spent less money than was taken in…but George W. Bush quickly changed that.
I believe in smart government that effectively does what it should and leaves the rest to the private sector, while still recognizing the legitimacy of the existence of government. I believe in equal rights for all Americans, whether gay, straight, female, male, immigrant or naturally born. The Republican Party no longer believes in any of that.
No longer should the American people stand for the weak leadership and intellectual bankruptcy of the Republican Party. I’ll be voting for President Obama’s re-election.
http://www.ronpaulforcongress.com/index.html
@Sally W DeSelms
1) Have you forgotten about Oklahoma City? What about the 1996 Olympics? I guess when a white, former military, American commits terrorism against their own country and own people its OK?
2) Please tell me what specific policies Obama & the Democrats have passed, that have been fully enacted, that are, as you say, have hurt small business.
Jeff, I grew up with parents who liked to believe they were arch Conservatives but when you came right down to it did not embrace the consequences that would flow from typical Conservative answers to social problems. I suspect that has been true for a lot of people in this country, and the GOP relies on its ability to convince a whole lot of middle and lower class people that their interests are aligned with the GOP’s true constituency in order to stay in power. They made Liberal a dirty word and have attempted to do the same with Progressive. Your comments suggests that you are more of a Progressive in that you believe society and its relationship to the people who comprise it should progress. Congratulations for leaving the Regressives and welcome.
@Sally – Our Founding Fathers WERE racists. They owned slaves, it’s hard to get more racist than that.
WELCOME HOME. We need your support to save our middle class in America.
Where have you been? You’re “Too Late Schmardt”…..
“at least with ron paul, i can believe what he says”
Really? How do you know this? He *is* a politician and he is trying to sell us a bill of goods. That’s his job, as a politician. Why do people claim that he is the *only* one who they can trust? I don’t get it.
lulz @ someone claiming someone else is “racist” for calling them out (rightly so, I might add) as a racist! Sally, the Founding Fathers were, indeed, at least some of them, racist. Sorry to break this to you: they owned slaves! But I’m thinking that perhaps you don’t actually know the definition of “racist” since you think someone disagreeing with you makes him or her a “racist”. Let me break it down for you: your “keep Muslims out of the White House” diatribe is not only misguided (Pres. Obama is not a Muslim. Muslims do not drink beer nor do they eat pork bbq), but completely offensive and racist. Additionally, bringing 9-11 into the mix is puzzling and rather worrisome to me. The Tea Party people wave that day around to justify their hatred of people who happen to belong to a certain religion, when the people who flew those planes were *zealots*…not unlike the Christians who have killed abortion doctors. You need to examine your beliefs and stop being spoonfed by Faux News.
Typo in the first paragraph… still a republican at heart.
“You’re free to disagree with this issue, but they’re free to believe what has been historicaly believed for all but the last 10 years: that Marriage is between a man and a woman, rooted in natural law, and geared towards the creating and care of children. The whole reason the government got into the marriage biz was to give tax breaks to people who were ensuring the population was growing. Gay couples cannot do that. ”
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Um. What about couples who cannot conceive? Or those who are childless by choice? Baloney. Some of us just want to be with someone for the rest of our lives without breeding.
You need to go back and actually *read* history. I’m an anthropologist, but you don’t need to be one to know that marriage has NOT always been between a man and a woman. My god, read the BIBLE if that’s what you’re into. Men had several wives. In some societies, WOMEN had multiple husbands! Furthermore, in some ancient cultures men did indeed marry men and vice versa.
This “one man, one woman” nonsense has got to stop. It’s a complete lie.
great article …. GOD BLESS OBAMA !!!!
Abandoning the Republican Party to support Obama? I may do so to support an Independent because I feel the republicans are shying away from their roots. Either Jeff is smoking too much weed or he is not who he states he is. 1) There never has been a place in time for gay marriage. 2) The answer is not more taxes, even 1%, it’s to cut spending. I am sick and tired of supporting all the inner city “baby-momma’s” with Obama stickers on their screen doors. 3) Don’t forget, it was Lincoln, a Republican, who freed the slaves. 5) It was the Republicans who pushed through the Civil Right Act of 1968 when the Democrats threatened to filibuster it! See the Dems serve Kool-Aid with the message “You need us” then they create drama to prove that what they say is true. An as for corporate greed? Ask Obama why the banks and George Sorros donate more money to him than any other candidate in history. Finally, if you don’t understand what destruction the dems are capable of, look at California where the State Senate and House have been run by Dems for decades.
Thank you OY, I am in agreement with you.
Wow. I hope there are a lot more republican voters just like him out there so they can help us stop this madness. Thank you and welcome to sanity, Jeff.
Larry Bancs does what most of the Republican candidates and media talking-heads do on a regular basis: distort reality and mis-read history.
Regarding Lincoln: The the Democratic Party, in the 1800s, was both the culturally conservative party and the party that represented farmers and working-class interests. However, it was only fighting for white working-class interests.
The Republican Party was the liberal party that stood for both social and economic change, i.e. industrialization, liberalism and capitalism.
Regarding the 1960s and the Civil Rights Act, the Democrats who opposed it were nearly all Southern Segregationists, opposed to racial equality, who subsequently left the Democratic party after the Civil Rights legislation of the ’60s and joined the Republican party, where their ideological descendants can be found today.
What do you call a Republican with a brain…..a Democrat.
Oh, Jeff! Look at the can of worms you just opened! However, you will be missed. Pro Republican Here
Maybe I’m a cuckoo in the head, but our health insurance ranges from $300-$500 per person per month. Most people lease a car for around the same…maybe that health insurance should come first? Obama has not been fiscally responsible either. Although I have supported fully his breaking of the sovereignty of other nations in his destroying our enemies from above via egregious and bodacious drones. We still don’t have a energy policy to speak of, and undoubtedly the fracking debate will go on forever even as US oil production is at highest level in 30 years, and all data points to a peak of US oil importation and we become a large net exporter of petro products including in this is our dominance in petrochecmicals. Rather than make some dramatic piece stating that you were once a republican, but now you will vote for Obama (incredulous?) the right thought isn’t one of Republican or Democrat. The thought should be finding the best leadership regardless of party. We just need a few good leaders because American Exceptionalism is clearly alive and well. It is just buried under a cloud of recency bias aka the negativity of 10 years of dramatic outliers and peak levels of fast information.
Gayle Davis, thank you
There is such a divide in this country…we are divided politically socially financially religiously educationally racially sexually generationally. On what can we agree? Find me one topic in which there is no rancour. Let us begin at a place wherein we are all on one side. IF we can find that location in points of view maybe we can find ways in which we also see eye to eye on other topics. IF we can agree on a few topics maybe then we can find a common ground moving forward and an ability to compromise and make our country work again.
Uh, if you are not sure of my political affiliation by the comment then you don’t realize what our political debates have become.
Lincoln did not free the slaves. He only declared the slaves of the rebelling states were free. Many were still enslaved in states still loyal to the union. It was the 13th amendment which freed the slaves
Welcome Jeff and thank you for commentary! The Republican Party of the last 30 years, and more the last decade have not represented their party well at all. Since Obama won in 2008they have moved so far o the right they’re in danger of falling off the edge! To those who believe he is Muslim my response to you is your too stupid to live let alone vote. For those who think all Muslims are our enemy, I say stop confusing the faith of many with the politics of a few. For those who believe the Jews are Gods chosen people and therefore we must support Israel at any cost, I suggest you vist the website called If Americans knew – educate yourself on the difference between being a Jew and being a Zionist. For those who still believe President Obama has raised you taxes & taxes on small businesses – again educate yourself by going to the CBO, Tax Policy, and Politifact or Factcheck.org websites and do some reading. Taxes are at their lowest rate in nearly 60 years under Obama – while your at it, do a little reading on President Reagan’s administration, I think you’ll be surprised! As for the idea of marriage being a one man, one woman only issue either because of some biblical mandate or some natural law crap, I defere to posts from others here – I think they addressed it nicely. Several folks who posted here could also use a remedial course in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Ron Paul fans need to put their weed away for a bit and make the effort to read his news letters, the bills he’s sponsored and even his debate comments from years past – if you still want to support this squirrel, refere to my first comment – there’s no hope for you! All you alleged Pro-Lifers here, did you support Bushes wars? Do you support the death penalty? Do you support torture? Do you support the GOP’s war on Planned Parenthood & free contraception? How about their attacks on programs like WIC, Head Start, and the minimum wage? If you do, then I’ve got news for you – you are NOT Pro-Life! Your concern for innocent life starts at conception and ends at birth – there’s a difference! I do not advocate abortion, I advocate for education and planning and accept the fact that sometimes woman have to make a difficult choice. Outlawing abortion will not end the practice – it will, however, make it a dangerous back alley & seedy hotel room practice once again. The only decent candidate the Republican field has is Jon Huntsman, but no one is looking at this guy and that is too bad for good Republicans everywhere.
Well said.
As the political parties shift their political philosophical points of reference with the republicans going further to the right towards fascism and the democrats going to the right towards the center of the political spectrum, both political parties continue to NOT represent a majority of American citizens and voters.
The republicans have the smallest percentage of true followers and con the Independents into voting for them, but when elected abandon them, while the democrats have the largest percentage of true followers and when elected abandon them also for their own interests, their politcal parties’ interests or whoever gives them trips, donations to their PACs and foundations, employs their family and friends and/or contributes to their political campaigns or causes
That being said, I would rather vote for any blemished democrat over any republican because at least I know democrats will represent issues that I, my family and a majority of citizens support like education, healthcare, creating jobs, the environment, our poor, sick and elderly and small businesses. Republicans have NOT and will NOT do that, because republicans support issues that only a minority of citizens support like war and guns, big business, anti-abortion, equal rights for All citizens and corporate welfare.
I can Never Ever vote for a political candidate with an (R) or even some political candidates with an (D) behind their name until they start representing what is best for America and the majority of U.S. citizens while protecting the rights of Our minorities.
Thank You.
Why in the world would you blame fracking on Obama? G.W. Bush just about gutted EPA regulations to allow fracking, and also gave the companies a free ride by having them not have to disclose the chemicals used in fracking. If you think Obama could change that legislation with the party of “No you can’t” controlling the House and a filibuster happy Senate, think again.
It’s simple as this, If the things that Obama are fighting for do not line up with the word of God I can’t support him..And the only way to intelligently consider wether or not he is makeing decisions based upon the Lords guidance is to read and understand the bible for yourself. And I don’t want to hear anything from an athiest point of view,,In GOD WE TRUST is everything that this country claims to stand for…How can you live here and claim to be anything else but a God fearing child of GOD and not feel like a hypocrite.If anyone wants to know who GOD’s chosen people are DONT VISIT A WEB SITE VISIT YOUR BIBLE…
It does not matter if you are a Democrat, or Republican, just make sure you listen closely and vote on or for issues that will best serve and benefit your lifestyle. Don’t vote against our current President, because of the color of his skin. Vote for something: and not against someone. Put AMERICA first. In my opinion most Republicans politicians could care less if we cut the baby in half. AMERICA FIRST
It’s the neocons, people. Just like it was the laissez faire capitalists in the 1920′s. The neocons spent so many long hours developing what they thought was a “perfect economic ideology” only to find out that it was dismal in addressing the needs of a consumer based economy. But this is fairly typical of supply siders. They create policies that only serve to concentrate wealth in the hands of the 1% and forget that, in a consumer based economy, having a well-paid working and middle class with disposable income is essential to keeping that consumer economy running.
And the failure of these trickle down policies, which are obvious to anyone with any economic sense whatsoever, aren’t not really an accident and are by DESIGN. If you’re someone who judges the success of, say, a foreign policy by whether or not we meet our defense objectives and have become, somehow, safer as a nation then you’re going to judge that Iraq specifically but even our misguided policy in Afghanistan (especially when we neglected Afghanistan for Iraq) are, for the most part, failures. But if you’re someone, say a neocon, who judges the success of foreign escapades on how profitable they are for a small handful of people then you’re going to say both Iraq and Afghanistan are glowing successes and the only failure is that they didn’t go on long enough (which is why more than a few GOP candidates for President want nothing more than to stick more troops in Iraq–against the will of the Iraqi people).
Likewise with health care, if you’re somone who thinks that a successful health care system is the one that allows the best care for the most reasonable price then you’ve just got it all wrong. When it comes to neocon logic, the best health care systems are the ones with the most profitable outcomes for, again, a handful of insurers and corporations. The level of care or the access to care don’t factor into their equation. This is why neocons like John Boehner can say, with a straight face and zero empirical evidence, that “America has the best health care system in the world” as he and so many neocons said during the health care debate.
In the world of the neocon, whose policies and think tanks set the tone and the agenda for the GOP, PROFIT and PROFIT alone are the goals of their corporate-backed policies. That’s why an economy that favors the 1% over all others is always the result of supply side policies. It was what happened to our economy in the 1920s and it’s what happened in the 2000s. The overconcentration of wealth in the 1% is the GOAL of modern-day conservatives. Because the 1% are the one’s who pay for their policies through lobbyists. Gutting the power and control of policy by anyone other than the 1% is how they make this happen.
Gutting unions and underpaying both working and middle class workers means that those working and middle workers don’t have the economic means to become a political force that rivals corporate money and money of the wealthy. When we had a viable middle class (made possible by unions) we also had a middle class who wielded some level of political power. When people have more power in the market, they have more power at the tables of political power. Knee-capping that power share of the middle class and silencing the political voice of all but the 1% was the goal of the neocons. And, in that, they have succeeded. Only the quick abandonment of middle class Americans away from the GOP will make the neocons and their failed, by any reasonable judgment, go away. It’s what made the laissez-faire capitalists become the historical footnote they were. The fact that for decades on end, the GOP was denied control over the entire Congress and only had limited control over the Presidency is the reason why laissez faire capitalists finally fell from the face of the Earth. It’s time to subject the neocons to the same purgatory and for the working and middle class who once supported them to realize that the interests of the working and middle class has NEVER been the concern of the modern day GOP. The needs of the 1% and the 1% alone are their only goals.
I would take the provocative step further in accusing the Republican Party of deliberate, conscious sabotage of economic recovery for political gain. Is a deliberate, conscious, co-ordinated effort to damage the US not a form of treason?
Republicans also deny a very serious climate problem, for which there is ample and strong evidence out of convenience; because it clashes with an ideology of a free market above all else. Some issues are so important to our collective survival that some strong government intervention in the free market is necessary.
I read this and I don’t quite understand why you’re supporting Obama when Gary Johnson is around.
I was a registered Republican for over 45 years. I voted for a Bush four times! But from Sarah Palin to Terry Sciavo, Roe V Wade, two wars on the credit card, and the religious right the Republican Party abandoned me. I no longer care to be associated with the GOP and the kind of people that I saw Sarah Palin rallying; if that is the Republican base it scares the hell out of me. The Republican Party no longer represents me. I have officially registered as an NPA.
In 2008 for the first time since Reagan (who would not be accepted by the right wing of the GOP today) I was voting for someone instead of against someone for POTUS. For the first time I phoned, knocked on doors, and donated to a presidential campaign! And I will again in 2012. Welcome aboard!
Why couldn’t this idiot see long ago that the republican party was made up of corporate fascists?
I am not on here to defend the Republican or Democratic Parties, I am a libertarian (lower case ‘L’—not confined strictly to the Libertarian Party, but rather a true believer in the principles espoused by the libertarian philosophy), and do not consider myself a supporter of the identical agenda those two dominant parties prove to have by way of their increasingly bipartisan war on citizens.
The rigid political ideology you refer to is just as much of what the Democratic Party is traditionally based on as a political philosophy as it is in what it is actively promoting through its representatives. To force people into health plans which will ultimately benefit the healthcare industry most, especially in those cases concerning people who do not fully accept ‘traditional’ Western medicine and who choose not to partake in the consumption of pharmaceuticals or in the self-appointed authority the FDA and American Medical Association have held for countless years, is not congruent with the principles of a truly free market and free society, regardless of what short-term benefits this infringement may result in. It’s a band-aid intended to rally people of need—seducing them with short-term benefits—but which, in the long run, only further enslaves them, much like we’ve they’ve been enslaved by the central banking system.
You also speak of the Republican Party’s resistance to lower the budget deficit. The actions of the Obama administration are no different than the actions of Bush II’s actions, or any different than Reagan’s actions, because all have spent like there is no tomorrow, and it doesn’t matter what front has been used to justify those actions.
It doesn’t matter if it’s the inflated spending on defense and military for wars which have proven once and again to be little more than well thought-out rackets. It doesn’t matter if it’s the inflated spending Obama proposes so that we may ‘create jobs’ that only help expand our repression by again policing the very citizens of this once-free nation from a faceless ‘terror’ that very conveniently moves location to whatever resource-rich country we look to exploit next. It also doesn’t matter if it’s the inflated spending Obama proposes on this nationalized healthcare, which will only run our economy into the ground even more quickly. You don’t propose an extreme measure like ObamaCare, which would cost $2 trillion, at a time like this, when we are on the verge of a national economic catastrophe. We can simply not afford something like that right now, and it’s debatable whether something like that would ever truly be for the benefit of all, since it already undermines the very freedom our country was once characterized by.
In summary, it is no longer an issue of whether it’s the Democrats or Republicans who are to blame for our country’s woes, because it’s both of them, and my personal choice is for a man who happens to be a Republican, but whose libertarian philosophy cherishes and protects the very freedom our country was found upon, and which defends the free market, allowing the consumer to determine what is in demand and what is not, rather than a private network of banks, which is what defines the proverbial term ‘conflict of interests’. I will abstain from plugging his name because I know those in the know are well-aware of the genuine change he represents, which is really the country’s last chance, and if you do not believe me, watch what occurs to our country should he not come to power this next year…
First of all I would like to say thanks and welcome, I am 77 years old and the republican party today is not the republican party I used to know, in fact they would be called left wing. Obama is one of the best presidents in my lifetime, I have studied politics in the US as well as living extensively in Europe, spending the war years in England etc, so I have seen a few politicians in my day. I have never known anything like this, your commenter Ben (above) who says to read the bible appears not to have done that. My religious
upbringing taught me to care for the helpless & the poor and that we should heal the sick – from the republican debates it appears they should fend for themselves or die. I for one appreciate you and your posting and will follow you with interest.
Thank you, Jeff, for your astute observations and welcome to the land of the politically and socially sane.
Please people. Anyone that thinks that either party , the unions, or a majority of those involved in politics want to represent the middle class must enjoy living in a bubble. Only one willing to close their eyes, and ears would attempt to defend or boast about the governing of either party. To defend either shows a lack of intellectual honesty or the effects of living in a constant state of narcosis.
Thank you for supporting President Obama. I know he, like every president, is not perfect, but he I believe he strongly supports the idea that everyone should have a chance to a better life. Unfortunately, the Republican Party seems to have stopped caring about those who have not had the opportunities of others.
One can work their entire life and never get ahead. We must work to make sure that everyone who works hard has a chance to move forward.
I see that you’ve gone insane or was never really a conservative in the 1st place. That’s fine. Conservatives outnumber libs 2-to-1. Liberal, Keynesian economic policies have brought us 100 yrs of Economic FAIL as Obama’s stimulus has proved, once again. It’s time to go back to what works. Tax cuts work every time. Follow JFK’s lead. Cutting taxes grows the economy. We need to, at least, keep them where they’re at, simplify the tax code, & get rid of useless regs to get the economy moving again. Obama promised to that, but he failed on that promise, BIG TIME.
A Prodigal Son has returned to the world of reality,,,YEAH!! Don’t pay attention to folks like Larry Banc, they’re rapidly becoming obsolete!!
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upbringing taught me to care for the helpless & the poor and that we should heal the sick – from the republican debates it appears they should fend for themselves or die….
I do apreciate the cander, And have have read my bible and do so daily,along with prayer for our nation,the sick and the helpless..I’m not urging or endorsing any specific party on anyone. I do see the good things that your referenceing to, and that is great we as a nation should continue in that direction. However, Thats not the whole story, anyone that rallies the support of those that live in a direct reflection of Soddom and Gomorra ( In wich God Destroyed) Could not possibly have our best interest in mind.We have had in the neighbor hood of 56 million abortions alone since the 70′s.,,Tell me that’s of God, Theres many other topics I could hammer on but not any single particuler one..It’s what this nation does as a whole not the few good things.You can’t be a half way christian nation. God wants the whole thing.I could start quoting scritpure or just copy and paste the bible if I thought it would help but I don’t intend to force anything on anyone,,Thats between you and God. I’m Just simply saying that if you want to see how your canidate lines up, Put him/her up against the real straight edge.
Two of your four bullet points have been Republican mantra for decades, so I reject those as reasons for changing your party. However, the rest is dead-on valid and relatively new policies, so I understand those as being your reasons..
@Ben: “In God We Trust” was adopted as the official motto of the United States in 1956. In fact, the first amendment ratified in December, 1791 starts “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;” This country is not a “Christian” country, but one in which the rights of all religions are treated the same while the government will not pass legislation that favors any one religion over any other.
@Larry Bancs: Regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1964 & “Democrats.” This issue became a breaking point for the Democratic Party in 1948 when Harry Truman made civil rights a part of his platform. In 1948, the Southern Democrats walked away of the Democratic party and created the segregationist States’ Rights Democratic Party, usually called Dixiecrats. They returned to the Democratic Party after the 1948 election when no civil rights action bill was presented, but they continued to support their racist agenda even after being forced to rejoin the party.
The original House version of the civil rights bill caused the filibuster, but there weren’t enough Democrat/ Republican votes to end the filibuster. At that time 7 of the 94 Southern Democrats supported the bill, none of the 10 Southern Republicans did. As to the North: 145 of the 154 Northern Democrats supported the bill and 138 of the 162 Northern Republicans. It’s pretty clear that this was a North vs Confederate states issue and not really a Republican vs Democrat issue. It would be interesting to see how many Dixiecrat Democrats switched to the Republican party (like Strom Thurmond did) after the civil rights bill passed.
Jeff it appears that both of us decided to jump on the same “Band Wagon”. If Huntsmans doesn’t get the nomination I’ll vote for Obama.
Jeff, I respect and admire your courage. Thank you for this heartfelt article. I know it can’t have been an easy decision.
Welcome Jeff and thank you for your support!!!
Here is a website that you may want to check: http://www.republicansforobama.org/
Hmm, so you’re saying the party that brought us the KKK, the Vietnam War, and Occupiers will benefit average Americans?
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What took you so long to realize that the Republicans are incompetent? I came to that conclusion in the 1980′s, and nothing the Republicans have done since has changed my mind.
@Gary Stockdale
This is not supported by the evidence, though it is a very common Democratic revisionist myth. Lets start the debunking by taking a look at the most powerful segregationists in the land (by virtue of the role the Senate Filibuster played in maintain the Jim Crow Regime).
Below, list of Dem Senators who voted “Nay”…1964 Civil Rights Act.
Byrd, Harry [D]
Byrd, Robert [D]
Eastland, James [D]
Ellender, Allen [D]
Ervin, Samuel [D]
Fulbright, James [D]
Gore, Albert [D]
Hill, Joseph [D]
Holland, Spessard [D]
Johnston, Olin [D]
Jordan, Benjamin [D]
Long, Russell [D]
McClellan, John [D]
Robertson, Absalom [D]
Russell, Richard [D]
Smathers, George [D]
Sparkman, John [D]
Stennis, John [D]
Talmadge, Herman [D]
Thurmond, J. [D]
Walters, Herbert [D]
I defy you to find more than one who became Republican: