Think Progress: The Republican Party of Texas released its platform this month, calling on Congress to repeal the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. “We urge that the Voter [sic] Rights Act of 1965 codified and updated in 1973 be repealed and not reauthorized,” the platform reads. Texas is one of nine states with a history of racial discrimination that must get clearance from the Department of Justice before altering its voting laws.
If these people could repeal the Emancipation Proclamation you can bet your last confederate dollar that's exactly what they would do. This is after all a political party that deliberately built its base with racists and to this day has its geographical and philosophical power base in the confederate south. Take a drive through the south and let us know if you don't see white Republican types flying the confederate flag far more often than the American flag.
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