Quote Originally Posted by thescot View Post
Well, if you refer to the Civil Rights Act of 1965 as the beginning of civil rights in the US, then you should point out that the law is only applicable in the southern states. Which would, I guess, imply that the other 39 or so states (depending on whether you use Obama's count) have no civil rights.
do you mean the Voting Rights Act of 1965, or the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Either way, they both apply to all 50 states. They may have been passed to address specific problems predominate in the South, but they're applicable to all.