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Kennedy called the congressional leaders to the White House in late October, 1963 to line up the necessary votes in the House for passage.[7] The bill was reported out of the Judiciary Committee in November 1963, and referred to the Rules Committee, whose chairman, Howard W. Smith, a Democrat and avid segregationist from Virginia, indicated his intention to keep the bill bottled up indefinitely.
When the bill came before the full Senate for debate on March 30, 1964, the "Southern Bloc" of 18 southern Democratic Senators and one Republican Senator led by Richard Russell (D-GA) launched a filibuster to prevent its passage.[11] Said Russell: "We will resist to the bitter end any measure or any movement which would have a tendency to bring about social equality and intermingling and amalgamation of the races in our (Southern) states."[12]
The Senate version, voted on by the House:[17]
Democratic Party: 153–91 (63–37%)
Republican Party: 136–35 (80–20%)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964
PLEASE NOTE THE VOTE.....WHEN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WAS THE PROUD PARTY OF TRADITION AND INTELLIGENCE
When the bill came before the full Senate for debate on March 30, 1964, the "Southern Bloc" of 18 southern Democratic Senators and one Republican Senator led by Richard Russell (D-GA) launched a filibuster to prevent its passage.[11] Said Russell: "We will resist to the bitter end any measure or any movement which would have a tendency to bring about social equality and intermingling and amalgamation of the races in our (Southern) states."[12]
The Senate version, voted on by the House:[17]
Democratic Party: 153–91 (63–37%)
Republican Party: 136–35 (80–20%)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964
PLEASE NOTE THE VOTE.....WHEN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WAS THE PROUD PARTY OF TRADITION AND INTELLIGENCE
There's your problem, you are still in the 1960s.