The Longest Filibuster

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond_filibuster_of_the_Civil_Rights_Act_of_1957

Luckily it didn't work! Reading this makes me evermore determined to know the backgrounds and voting practices of our legislature. (See Pat Buchanan's book The Death of the West (as mentioned in previous sited article). We must know them if we are to stop them.



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