Speaking of revisionist history: In her letter to the editor of July 14, Patricia McDaniel certainly invents a lot when it comes to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
A little research will show that the heavily controlled Democratic House foiled the bill in order to sink it. Eventually, the majority of Democrats, along with the majority of Republicans, managed to stop the filibuster.
In the end, 153 Democrats and 136 Republicans in the House of Representatives voted for the act, 91 Democrats and 35 Republican MPs voted no. The bill was passed in the Senate with 46 Democrats and 27 Republicans, while 21 Democrats and six Republicans voted against.
This tends to show to me that this was really a bipartisan bill from reading its story and looking at the statistics.
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