Just last year Rand Paul was happy to say he was very much against that part of the Civil Rights Act that required businesses to allow African Americans to eat, sleep, have a drink, or go to the bathroom like anyone else. We call that the ACCOMMODATION clause of the Civil Rights Act of 1965, which was the very basis of the law.
The movement that helped pass the law was at private business lunch counters across the South. The Southern Strategy began the day after the Voting Rights act of 1964, when the white South began its massive move from Democrat to Republican. Specifically because they did not want to give NWORDS the vote, equality in accommodations or to integrate schools. The White Christian South moved to the GOP because Democrats like JFK, LBJ, RFK and MLK wanted to give Blacks the vote, end Apartheid, end Jim Crow, integrate schools and do away with the culture of segregation. Not to mention Affirmative Action which is what created most of the African American middle class today – INCLUDING SUPREME COURT JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS.
I wonder how long before Rand Paul and Ted Cruz finally make such a mess of their rhetoric they end up in the ash bin of History where they belong. It’s inevitable. In fact I am willing to bet that Ted Cruz will be censured by the Senate before the next president is elected.