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Effort To Rename Russell Senate Building For McCain Is Running Into GOP Resistance

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But he is now most known for being an avowed segregationist and a “racist,” as his 76-year-old niece admitted to The Washington Post’s James Hohmann, and Russell’s record on civil rights is shocking today. Hohmann writes:

Russell successfully filibustered anti-lynching bills. He voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which he called “shortsighted and disastrous.” He blocked bills to eliminate poll taxes. He co-authored the “Southern Manifesto” to slow the integration of public schools after the Supreme Court unanimously ordered it in Brown v. Board of Education.

As a Dixiecrat — Southern Democratic politicians opposed to their party’s support for civil rights — Russell openly argued the white race was superior and once vowed that he would oppose “any measure or any movement which would have a tendency to bring about social equality and intermingling and amalgamation of the races in our states.” He later toned down his rhetoric and pinned the reason for his opposition to civil rights legislation on the less controversial states’ rights.
Perhaps McCain, who voted against the MLK holiday for AZ, amongst other things, would be seen as the lesser of two evils.
 

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If the thread is going to have the title "Effort To Rename Russell Senate Building For McCain Is Running Into GOP Resistance" it would have been nice to cite an article to that point.
 
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If the threat is going to have the title "Effort To Rename Russell Senate Building For McCain Is Running Into GOP Resistance" it would have been nice to cite an article to that point.
Enter "Effort To Rename Russell Senate Building For McCain Is Running Into GOP Resistance" into Google. It's the very first hit! And the 2nd. And the 3rd. And the 4th.

The red highlighted text in the OP links to the article. It was obviously there before your post as jcpro's post quotes it.

Ohhh. You weren't interested in the article, you were just being difficult.
 

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Enter "Effort To Rename Russell Senate Building For McCain Is Running Into GOP Resistance" into Google. It's the very first hit! And the 2nd. And the 3rd. And the 4th.

The red highlighted text in the OP links to the article. It was obviously there before your post as jcpro's post quotes it.

Ohhh. You weren't interested in the article, you were just being difficult.
TERB used to both underline and colour links in the text, to make them really obvious, but dropped the underlines some years ago for reasons only they know. This wouldn't be the first time mistaking the colour as emphasis made someone miss the link.

It's a style thing, but it might have been more apparent if the link had been the headline, rather than the poster's added personal comment. My favourite is always to choose words that actually point to a source, such as the mention of the Washington Post in the text here.
 

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If the thread is going to have the title "Effort To Rename Russell Senate Building For McCain Is Running Into GOP Resistance" it would have been nice to cite an article to that point.
It would have been nice for you, but threads aren't made for specific people's pleasure. They are there to make a point. You've got a quoted part of the article, followed by link to said article anchored by a point tied to said article.

Enjoy!
 

Aardvark154

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It would have been nice for you, but threads aren't made for specific people's pleasure. They are there to make a point. You've got a quoted part of the article, followed by link to said article anchored by a point tied to said article.

Enjoy!
So something entitled "Perhaps McCain, who voted against the MLK holiday for AZ, amongst other things, would be seen as the lesser of two evils." is expected to be instantly seen as a link to an article on how there is GOP resistance to the effort to rename the Russell Senate Building? Perhaps given that you posted it and had read the links you saw it that way, however, I certainly didn't.

Further the article cites two Southern Senators in opposition, that isn't what I'd term a groundswell.
 
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