Will Kürlich Kerl
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Challenge: With a POD of after 1947, have a Republican Congress pass the Civil Rights Act and a Republican president sign it instead of the Democrats.
Congress was Democratic during this period.Have the 1957 act do more.
Congress was Democratic during this period.
That's how they lost it in presidential elections. The Democrats remained in control of many state governments and statewide elected officials for longer, but after 1964, the South began to go Republican, with only native Southerner Jimmy Carter briefly taking it back for the Democrats.i read somewhere that one of the reasons the democrats lost the south was signing of the civil rights acts is that true?
Challenge: With a POD of after 1947, have a Republican Congress pass the Civil Rights Act and a Republican president sign it instead of the Democrats.
Here's the breakdown of votes by party and region (off Wikipedia):Well, more Republicans voted for the OTL Act than Democrats did if I recall.
So you can see it's a very strong North-South split more than anything else. There were more Democrats in Congress overall than Republicans, and a significant number of them were in the South. Meanwhile, the Republicans were barely represented in the South at all -- and none of the Southern Republicans voted for the bill, probably because (being Republicans in the South pre-Southern-Strategy) they were much more vulnerable politically.HOUSE:
- Southern Democrats: 7–87 (7–93%)
- Southern Republicans: 0–10 (0–100%)
SENATE:
- Northern Democrats: 145–9 (94–6%)
- Northern Republicans: 138–24 (85–15%)
- Southern Democrats: 1–20 (5–95%)
- Southern Republicans: 0–1 (0–100%)
- Northern Democrats: 45–1 (98–2%)
- Northern Republicans: 27–5 (84–16%)
Basically you have to butterfly the Depression away, or make the Dems ASB incompetent.
Not neccesarily. In my own TL I had Dewey win in '48, and lose in 52 after the conservative Republicans split the ticket and run MacArthur as an independent (MacArthur, oddly enough, was VERY pro-civil rights.).
Your own timeline has a POD of 1946, before my limit of 1947.