Would you have voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Yes (R), which means my time as a 1960's Tennessee Congressman might have been rather short

I am greatly disappointed that we have so many people on this forum who voted "no".  I don't think a "no" vote means someone is a racist.  Yet, a "no" vote on this issue in 1964 was certainly a vote to enable racists to infringe on freedom.

Racial discrimination is by far the greatest threat to individual liberty that has ever been faced by any group of individuals in our country's history.

The federal government was the only agent with the political and logistic capability to attempt to restore that natural liberty.  The freedom for many individuals to be able to gain equal access to prosperity and happiness far outweighs the infringement on the right of a restaurant owner or businessman to discriminate against a man based on his skin pigmentation.

No, just move to the Eastern districts and run there. The first and second would vote for a horse if it was a Republican, even back then.