Texas Pastor Protection Bill

[Cow Poke]

Q is sometimes used to mean "questioning". Oh, and I know a lot of gay people who use the word "queer". It's one of those words that's only considered bad when it's used to demean, I suppose.

Kinda like the N word is OK, I guess, when used by a certain group of people.

[Teallaura]

Kinda like the N word is OK, I guess, when used by a certain group of people.

For the record, no, it isn't.

[Cow Poke]

For the record, no, it isn't.

Yes, it's certainly not. But that doesn't stop them from using it.

[lilpixieofterror]

I wish you had winter and snow down there!

I for one, am glad they don't. Cold is evil.

[One Bad Pig]

Cut me some slack, I'm a Pennsylvania boy. We are not as bad as New York.

I grew up about 20 miles north of the Mason-Dixon line, just west of the Susquehanna.

[Cow Poke]

I grew up about 20 miles north of the Mason-Dixon line, just west of the Susquehanna.

How old were you before you could spell Susquehanna?

[rogue06]

How old were you before you could spell Susquehanna?

It'll be however old I am by next year.

[One Bad Pig]

How old were you before you could spell Susquehanna?

I don't recall ever spelling it incorrectly.

[Teallaura]

Cut me some slack, I'm a Pennsylvania boy. We are not as bad as New York.

Well, maybe...


Actually, I have a friend in Altoona...

[shunyadragon]

WHAT PARTY was it that fought against Civil Rights?

From CNN, no less....

Source: CNN

Here are a few surprising facts about how the Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law:

1. More Republicans voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act than Democrats

© Copyright Original Source

Already addressed this many times the political parties then were not the same as the parties today. Those Democrats that opposed 'Civil Rights' were Conservative Dixiecrats, and those states have become Republican because of the 'Civil Rights' and 'Voter Rights' legislation and Federal Court decisions.

[Teallaura]

Dixiecrats were a separate party that did indeed originate in the Democratic party - which had been playing to the 'democrat' South for decades. It wasn't until the break with Southern conservatives that the Democrat party fell to its leftwing - and fairly long after, at that.

Truth is, neither party gets 100% on civil rights. The Republicans let the ball drop shortly after the Civil War - both in their mangled dealings with Reconstruction and their abdication at the end of Reconstruction. Democrats were perfectly happy to let Plessy stand as long as it kept the South strongly supporting them. The CRA wouldn't have happened if BOTH parties hadn't supported it (largely thanks to the legislative finesse of Johnson, ironically enough).

[rogue06]

Already addressed this many times the political parties then were not the same as the parties today. Those Democrats that opposed 'Civil Rights' were Conservative Dixiecrats, and those states have become Republican because of the 'Civil Rights' and 'Voter Rights' legislation and Federal Court decisions.

And from which party did the Dixiecrats emerge and then rejoin? I'll give you a clue. It wasn't the Republicans. Very, very few would later change party affiliation. They were the very definition of what were known as yellow dog Democrats. It wasn't until the next generation grew up that conservative Southerners began joining the Republican party in any significant numbers basically starting at the end of the 1970s and 1980s.

[Cow Poke]

Already addressed this many times

You realize that "addressing" something is not the same as effectively refuting it?