actually only 6 of the poorest states also are in the top 10 least educated.
Thank you Mr Paul and screw you lindsay grahm and john mccain
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ginwilly
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I read something about the correlation between a cities credit rating and graduation rates. The poorest run cities according Moody also had the lowest graduation rates.
Detroit graduates less than 25% of the freshmen who start High School.
ginwilly
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In principle I agree with 9/10ths of the Civil Rights Act. The constitution protects our right to assemble. Also by this right we have the right to who we choose to assemble with. The constitution also underscores the importance of private property rights. I am firmly entrenched in my desire to keep the federal government from imposing their will on private entities and states (within reason) and to not just stop, but reverse the tentacles of overreach of Washington. I also am against on principle laws that are only for certain people. We can never be truly equal while these exist.title II of the civil rights act:
i don't care what you want or what you prefer, i'm pretty sure you were never a black person in the 1950's.
i just want to know if you support or oppose the damn thing.
no need for a paragraph, one word will do.
Having said all that, I'm also aware of our history. We all know that government created the problem by allowing slavery in the first place, poor representation in governing, idiotic Crow laws etc., but we also must realize the federal government was the only one in position to right their own wrong. Given the climate of the times something like title II had to be done, so I support it with the caveat that it never should have come to this. Eisenhower tried unsuccessfully many times to get civil rights acts passed in the 50's but political opposition was more important back then too. Jim Crow laws never should have existed. In the free market I can not impose my morals on you without a cost and you can't either. The government skewed the cost vs benefit of discrimination for any other reason than economical.
I also think the death of MLK, Malcolm X, Bobby Kennedy and the riots that broke out in 67' did more to awaken society to it's wrong than any law that could have been imagined.
edited to add music of the time as a major influence.
ChesusRice
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The first gun control laws were enacted in the ante-bellum South forbidding blacks, whether free or slave, to possess arms, in order to maintain blacks in their servile status. After the Civil War, the South continued to pass restrictive firearms laws in order to deprive the newly freed blacks from exercising their rights of citizenship. During the later part of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century, gun control laws were passed in the South in order to disarm agrarian reformers and in the North to disarm union organizers. In the North, a strong xenophobic reaction to recent waves of immigrants added further fuel for gun control laws which were used to disarm such persons. Other firearms ownership restrictions were adopted in order to repress the incipient black civil rights movement.
echelon1k1
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dude, voting cards ain't changed much in 60 odd years... Must save money using them for the presidential elections too...title II of the civil rights act: