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mmmm that yellow top is creamy … wait sorry lol. Ugggghhh so sick of politics right now. I almost didn’t watch this one. But Marina and hotforprofits are my medicine for it atm.
While we are on a subject of politics, lets do Politician and Statesman. This comment will get us started. Please solve the mystery that this comment presents if you think it would make a worthy word request, HotForWords, or if it interests you, fellow Students.
Politician shares the meanings of Statesman which refer to one engaged in Statecraft, the art of leading or directing the affairs of government or diplomacy. Within this sense, they are synonyms.
However Politician got a derogatory connotation.
In most English dictionaries Politician has an additional definition, as one who seeks to gain for personal or partisan purposes or to win with unprincipled or disapproved means.
Where, when and why Politician got the negative meaning for English is a mystery with the thin resources used by this commenter, mostly the ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY (http://www.etymonline.com/). Apparently when Politician became used in English (1588) from along the way the Latin Politicus, “science of government”, and back to Greek Politikos with Aristotle’s book ta politika, “affairs of the state”, figuring in and eventually to the Greek word Polis, “city”, which was the place of political organization for them.
Politico, a politician, had a negative side and came to English via French, Spanish and/or Italian from the same Latin and Greek sources. Perhaps Politician acquired its bad reputation from Politico.
Whatever, Politicians were viewed poorly from the beginning of democracy apparently.
Perhaps Politics had no negative meaning but to be political did.
However Statesman (1592) escaped the legacy of Politics by being made like Steersman in reference to the “ship of state”.
I am issue orientated over a party affiliation, but this at this time on a national level I am definitely voting Democrat.
Libertarian!
Hey Marina, i wanted to know the origin of the phrase “whats up”
its verrrry commonly used, yet i bet 99.9% of the people dont know what its origin is
Profesora Marina:
What is the origin of the word jaguar? In Spanish is the same word, just change the pronunciation.
I am not republican nor democrat, I am Colombiano
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[Marina's evil twin considers the fate of her student.]
Hi, I really like this web site, is very educational and interesting to know the origins/meaning of some commonly used words; that, seems to be REALLY GREAT to me.
With that point set up clear, I would like to know the origins/meaning of some words: music, adore, praise, worship, humble and sin.
I think it would be interesting to investigate some of/all these words.
Well, thanks a lot and I hope you can let me know what I’m expecting .
Bye, danalvyzep4126
Pd. It’d be interesting to find/have some synonyms of the word KNOW
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Test to see what Google ads I can get displayed.
Learjet
Learjet
Learjet
Rolls Royce
Rolls Royce
Rolls Royce
Kb do you want a Learjet and a Rolls Royce
Moose & Squirrel will get you Moosehead Beer, maybe.
Just window shopping for a birthday pressie for Teacher in December.
HotForWords,
In your picture example of oligarchy who is the guy on the right and what’s his significance?
and Squirrel playing foot ball.
I Saw A Squirrel ( first 5 second explains it all really
)
in case 1st link didn’t work … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVqQTV8XP1Q
Marina,
This is a tuffy,
There are to many directions.
Registered Republican
Secret ballet at the polls
Allow me to be confidential
Greg
Hi Marina
first of all i would like to say that you are a BOM.
second, where were you when i learned in high school? this is a much better way learning words.
i need your help with explaining the word handsom for a guy, what it the source of this word.
thanks and hopeing to hear from you soon.
Guy
Where does “outfit” comes from ??
Neither…I’m a polycratic disestablishmentarian imperialist-anarchist.
MARINA–democrat + republican = useless & corrupt.tom-staten island.
CT is 242 votes behind Marina.
I think a good tactic would be to wait until the last day and hit it hard. Yea the servers might crash but CT won’t know what hit him.
Where did the word CORSET come from?
Corset, as in a garment designed to make a persons waist smaller.
Marina,
Its hotforwordsspoof off of youtube :).
I wanted to thank you for subscribing to me :).
Also, What is the origin of, antidisestablishmentarianism.
I had a test over that word, the one thing i didnt get to learn about it was the origin, by the way, we are studying origins in my class. I suggest my teacher look at your youtube and she loves it.
God Bless,
Erin, aka hotforwordsspoof
See: http://www.hotforwords.com/2007/11/27/antidisestab lishmentarianism/
“it will cost you an arm and a leg”
hint, Darl’in, it comes from the art world, specifically portrait painting long, long ago
What about the words liberal and conservative?
Liberal means against the status quo.
Conservative means for the status quo.
But what are the origins of these words?
Also, when did liberal become such a dirty word? Thanks!!!!
Homework: a Republican living in a state ruled by
Dumbocrats.
I was at the beach today watching an airshow. There was a herring gull sitting on a groyne watching things. This kid was next to it too for a good 10 mins… STROKING IT!! touching its legs, talking to it. I filmed a little bit of it. It was so funny… I wanted to pet the birdie
i wanna find out more about the word exotic
I just e-mailed the Republican party about the stars on their Elephant. I got a reply from an automated system saying they would get back with me. So maybe we will find out the reason why the stars are upside down.
Good! I would be interested in what they say if anything. What email did you use? I would also email them so they don’t ignore the question.
Hey Jack, This is the email address I used.
chairman@gop.com
Thanks Captain. Email sent. Lets see what happens. I loaded my email for bear.
You and I will be on the Secrete Services list to be checked out
Jack this is a odd question but have you ever sent anything to the Teacher? At the address in her contacts page. And if so did she acknowledge it with so much as a form email. I have noticed She never mentions getting anything in the mail from Her fans. That is odd does anyone ever send Her anything at all?
I did link Her site to mine the other day, very cool ( in News page ) My Wife would have left me if I had put it anywhere else
Capman, I already have been checked out by the Secret Service many years ago from my hacking days. The file on me would fill a ream of paper.
RRR, The form email solution was brought on because of spammers. Mine is working fine. You also have to remember she gets thousands of emails. If she replied to every email she would never get any lessons done. Its a big time killer. I know the forms are working because Im getting emails just fine.
Isn’t that you and Capman are for?
Read and send out answers to fans? .
But my question was:
Have you ever sent anything to the Teacher? At the address in her contacts page. And if so did she acknowledge it with so much as a form email. I have noticed She never mentions getting anything in the mail from Her fans. That is odd, Does anyone ever send Her anything at all?
Maybe that is something you two could do. Answer fan mail.
Lets see if I can answer your question again.
The position of TA was just a fun title at first for HFW. I had asked to change that to a working position, leaving Teachers Pet as the fun title. As for TAs answering email, It maybe in the future but not at this time. We do not have access to her email. Many of her emails are private/sensitive information. Also remember like I said before she doesn’t have time to reply to 100,000,000 viewers. That takes staff that larger company could handle.
Let me propose this snail mail question to you John. Have you every received a reply from a famous Hollywood star? Im sure she gets her fan mail. Also remember to send a thank you card back cost money. Most letters do not have and email address to reply back to.
Thats the best I can answer your question at this time.
Capman
The stars are not upside down. There are tilled to the RIGHT.////\_!!
I looked around like I said it just TILTED to the RIGHT.
but another Blogger said this…I did a little research and found the use of the five pointed star upside down has satanic uses. I have searched and searched but I can’t find out who designed the Republican logo. I have a feeling some neo-pagan, democratic designed this logo and is laughing every time he sees this logo on a Republican advertisement.
you may larf, but there’s all sorts of little bits of masonic symbolism littering UK and US government stuff.
Where did we get the expression: hoodwinked
That’s an interesting word because its root means blind or close both eyes. I won’t say anymore because this could be a good word for Marina to do because she likes to fool us.
i have a vague feeling that has something to do with falconry.
Dear Marina,
Up here in Canada, we are about to have another election.
The Central Igloo that the politicians do their business in has melted and people are upset(global warming). Our King, Harpernostril 1, has rented snowmobiles for all of our top politicians so they can ride farther North to re-set up a new Parliament. It was on the news!
We have don’t have the fancy name origins like the ones you mentioned. The party names we have are “talk to the hand” party, “dial zero for operator” party, and “we got eggrolls in our ears” party.
None of them ever listen to us. They just nod, chuck snowballs at eachother and collect nice paychecks.
Tories & grits… sounds more delicious than anything from Maple Leaf foods which is heade by CEO, Mr. McCain (Michael).
Seriously how can you forget the Green With Envy or Marijuana parties?
For those not in Canada… yes, there is a Marijuana party, but have never elected anyone due to a lack of munchies at the polls.
INDEPENDENT
1491 votes for M now 1207 for CT
Top 5 reasons to go to college.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPjGni6mqew
When the greatest Samurai in Japan was dying he instructed his servant to tell the next three great Samurai to come see him and he would pass his authority on to whichever of them was the best. However, unbeknown to his servant, the Samurai placed a pillow over the door to his room. He then laid down and waited. When the first Samurai entered the room he sensed the pillow falling on him and cut it in half. Later the second Samurai entered the room and sensing the pillow falling, cut it in four pieces. When the third Samurai approached the master’s room, he sensed a trap and did not enter…..
I am a card-carrying yellow-dog bleeding-heart liberal democrat.
I liked your discussion of the origins of the democratic and republican parties.
Perhaps you can later talk the “Whig” party sometime and the origin of that word? Honest Abe was first a Whig. There were also the Federalists once upon a time.
As I understand it, the Republican party sprang not only from anti slavery sentiments but also from the movement to consilidate the nation and de-emphasize the power of individual state goverments.
I have heard it said that before the civil war, people would say “The United States ARE…” Now people say “The United States IS…”
Yawn
Hi pleased to me your acquaintance, my lady. I am an italian “student”, I would like to know something about the word ” acquain. It sounds like a neo latin word, “acquīrere” means “acquire ” in latin. Knowing anything is like possessing that thing, is not true?
What do you think about ?
A kiss from the Old Europe to my favorite teacher.
i was wondering, what was the original meaning of the word Christ? was it always a name, or does it hold any specific meaning beyond Jesus Christ.
if you dont mind me butting in, (from memory, ready to be shot down) Christ isnt a name, it’s an appellation. I think it’s a greek appellation: “christos” meaning something or other .. probably something like “giver of light” or “teacher” … or something.
oh .. and, of course, not being a roman, “Jesus” wasn’t his name .. that’s the romanised version .. i think it was “Joshua” .. or “Jeheshua” or something.
“Christ” comes from the Greek “Christos” meaning “anointed one”. Mijj is right. It is a title, not a name. He would be more accurately described as Jesus, the Christ… not Jesus Christ. In Hebrew the word is “Mashiach”, also meaning “anointed one” and is the word from which we get “Messiah.”
As I understand it, there was no letter “J” (or a “J” or “Y” sound) used in Latin or Greek at that time. His name in Latin and Greek was Iesu or Iesus (with a letter “i”, just as Julius Caesar was written as “Iulius”. His name in Greek began with the letter Iota). This created a rough approximation for the “Y” sound of the Hebrew letter Yod. (Iesu pronounced “ee-eh-soo”)
The original Hebrew name of Jesus is “Yeshua” which is a derivation of “Yehoshua” (Joshua) which means “salvation”. His name with title in Hebrew is Yeshua Ha’Mashiach (literally meaning “salvation, the anointed one”).
oh yeh .. i just remembered .. i think the greek “christos” thing is related to the Hindu “Krishna” somehow. .. i guess the greek thing is derived from “Krishna”. … (I’m not sure Krishna is a Hindu thing, i’m gussing)
quik question to mac users….Is it normal that when you move your mouse at a certain low speed it will go even slower ,it’s like the tracking speed falls down:S kinda hard to explain , but it’s very anoying I like my mouse to be super fast and not this slugish.I’v set it to the fastest tracking speed and it’s still not fast enough… …tell me if you don’t understand what I just said….
You must have some kind of third party mouse tracking software that has that thing where it goes slower when you go really slow, etc… my mac just has a tracking speed and I am set at 50% which is really fast.
Or you have a mouse that needs to be replaced.. because that does not sound right.
Dear Teacher,
I enjoy your videos and your humor. My son took some cell-phone video of my eldest son’s graduation, this weekend. I would like to put together a video with comical out-takes similar to yours. Would you guide me to where I can become educated in this process? Thank you.
Your Dear Student
it works fine on windows…I tried different mise , one gaming mouse that has a function to change the sensitivity did the same…
I have the tracking speed on 100% on windows to ,that´s also to slow 
I really need to figure it out cause it’s freaking anoying:P
If it is wireless did you check the batteries?
nope, it’s not wireless, i’d never go there
I had to replace both of my mice on different computers because of erratic problems. I went with two Logitech cordless and just love them. They do a lot more than a regular wired mouse and no cords. But that’s my preference FB
Does your mouse have a ball. The contacts inside could be clogged up or dirty. Take out the ball and clean the two small rollers with alcohol and a q-tip.
nope , I got lazers and opticals, they all do the same in mac and all work perfectly in windows
Oh, ok, then you must be having problems as M said with two drivers interfering with each other. Try doing a system restore back to an earlier date when the mouse worked better.
I just reainstalled mac … finaly got the screen resolution right took me 2 days -.-, (I don’t realy own a mac ,just mac installed on a pc,don’t tell steve
)
LOL… My wife just got a new iMac, put it where the old PC was, so I sat down , got comfy, & tried to find the start button, had to get up again, it’s on the back, sat down again, got comfy, it started talking to me, in a man’s voice. I got up again, to get my gu… weapon of choice, as no other man is going to have my wife touching his mouse. Anyways started to get comfy again & it tried to take my picture with the gu… weapon, before it locked on me I escaped out of the chair & haven’t been back. I don’t think it likes me, so I went to the laptop, with a two button, scroll enabled, mouse & waitforit wireless & fell asleep I got so comfy. My only mac experience so far…why is there only one button on the mouse & no schroll? (Maybe your mouse wants too much control or has too many…)
Billy she has found your password or user name and the site you hang out on and now she is going to snoop on you.
So a newbie may show up on here and it may be her. 
So we may have to water down how we show our affection for Miss M. sometimes. 
The one button mouse has few controls on it. People have many times told Apple not to add many buttons on the mouse because they get confused. I on the other hand love my Logitech laser mouse. I think its the MX 900. It has two wheels and 5 buttons. The main scrolling wheel has like a shifter in it. I can shift from clickity to free wheeling just by clicking the wheel or switching applications. Oh and the laser is invisible no more red light. I love this mouse. Apple can keep their cutesy mouse.
So Billy. How is it like having a new man in the house?
Are you getting jealous yet? I heard that it does quite well in satisfying women. 
Don’t you worry. He’s bi. You can change his voice from Bruce to Victoria and she will rock your night away. 
Try creating your own log in and you can make changes without messing up her computer. Macs handle multi family members well.
Have fun!!
It’s because the current OS port your using is hacked with old code that was used back in the 68000 series chip sets. It sound like someone did a work around (hack) to make the mouse work on BIOS chip sets that are not authorized by Apple. I would have to look at the source code of your OS to be positive.
Back in the day. Mac users could download a 3rd party driver that would do a progressive acceleration to their mouse. I no longer use such a driver but wish I did. Im very good at using such a progressive accelerator. I presently use the standard mac accelerator that I have set at 100% because I can’t make it go any higher. I could almost move my pointer purely by thought.
I Just got back from a friend and he has an imac ,didn’t realy notice that the tracking speed fell down to like 5% when i move my mouse slowly, I set his tracking speed to 100% but it went as fast as mine….that’s to slow for me -.-
So I think it’s some weird driver isue
I don’t know much abouth this whole mac thing lol
I got the hacked and stripped down kalyway mac 10.5.2,I edited some kext files to get the full resolution,Cause the only thing I could choose was 1024×768 . Took me 2 days to get that right -.-I can’t realy remember if I had any trouble with the mouse before that, I reinstalled mac like 20 times in the last 2 days cause I always screwd something up:P
I have an intel core 2 duo and i’m getting a total score of 198,something in xbench, do you have any idea if that’s good? is it using both cores? I don’t have a videocard installed just the onboard intel 950 gma, and 2gigs of 667 mhz ddr2
Oh and do you know if it’s worth to upgrade to 10.5.4?
You said your friend has an imac. You didn’t state OS or version of Imac. It’s like stating I own a car but it could be a ferrari or pinto. They are two entirely different cars. On my mac my I’m using a Logitech 900mx laser wireless mouse. No accelerator other than the stock mac settings. I have a first edition mac mini using OS 10.3.9. It does have some progressive speed but hardly noticeable. I can move my mouse 1inch to the right and movie the pointer across the entire screen. Screen res 1440X900.
Kalyway has numerous bugs in it. My friends hate it with a passion like you would not believe.
Its was like taking a Ford Pinto and turning into an airplane. Yea you can do it but why would you?
xbench seems a bit high. Sounds like false data. Should be around 130 or so. But there are many many factors relating those numbers. You said yours is stripped down so that might be accurate speeds.
Yes its always good to upgrade your OS because Apple is really good about plugging up security leaks. Many hackers outside of the company are responsible for notifying Apple about the leaks. Apple even gives credit to those who find the leaks.
As you know Apple’s current OS is rooted in Unix. Unix is a very powerful OS. Thats what really makes it so great on a programmer aspect. I even run native Unix applications on my mac with no conversions.
My recommendation is play around with the Kalyway for a bit but don’t get to involved with it nor let its bugs influence you. Its a copy of a copy of another copy that is very unreadable. To give a mac a true test is to buy a mac with a kick ass video card in it. If your on a tight budget then you can get a mac mini for about $600 to $700 clams. It lets you keep your Monitor, keyboard and mouse. Just remember the mini mac is a low end machine. My friend had a quad Intel mac tower that just blows the doors off his mini.
Hope that helps.
my friend has the leopard os,he bought the thing this year, I just wanted to check if he had the same thing with the mouse.
hehe, way to expensive lol, I build this pc for under 400 euro’s and it’s getting a pretty good score in xbench…I have a quad core 6600 laying arround to and an ATI 4870 but i Can’t find the drivers for mac so i’m just using the onboard card(need to buy a new motherboard for that 6600).
Do you have The sensitivity of your mouse set to very low or something?
I tried to install the 10.5.4 update but it always freezes at 40% and then reboots and keeps giving me the message to reboot,mac says it’s somekind of kernel panic..
I’m not going to buy a mac
you say a mac mini costs 600-700 dollars ….well here in the netherlands they cost 700 euro’s that’s like 1050 dollars…
the pc i have now has a 24 inch monitor, 1 tb hardrive a good motherboard an ati 4870 ,2 gigs of drr2, a core 2 duo at 3.05 ghz(overclocked), and a coolermaster soprano case and all of this has cost me me a litle more than one mac mini…. 
Mac is just a rip off, also the iphone, that creepy guy steve jobs said 180 dollars in his iphone speech , f*ck him, the cheapest you can get it here is 850 euro’s that’s 1250 dollars for a phone 
Just one little slider in the preferences pane that adjust the sensitivity.
Remember the version you have it a hacked job. Buggy as all hell. Apple purposely did that so no one could make clones.
The mac is not for conscious budget consumer.
There is ways around this. I have friends in the UK that paid like 128 Euros not including shipping. 
You just have to be a bit resourceful. 
Your going to get a lot of kernel panics because you don’t have the right hardware.
The prices I quoted was yes, US$ for a new machine. You can buy a used machine for half that. If you can’t afford it then stick with what you got. It will be fine for your needs.
Oh now your calling it a rip off just because you don’t have one. Sorry you feel that way.
He said the iPhone is $199 US. I don’t know where you got your information that it was $180. Trade agreements our countries is why it cost more.
I have enough money , I just don’t want to spend it, or else i’ll never be a millionair
duno where the 180 dollars came from, Had that number in my head for some reason…I realy think it’s a rip off yes(even if i’d own one myself 
)
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talking abouth being recourcefull , it takes me weeks untill i buy something, I surf the web for weeks for the cheapest way to get it,most of the time I eventualy end up not buying it tough
1. Imboseal
2. Normal
Kobe must be sleeping soundly.
Distinguish Professor, What’s bubbling in your cauldron for the Halloween special lessons. Is the alphabet soup forming words like:
nighmare
normal
derrick
fairy/fate
belfry
fanatic
Hope you have a green screen by then.
Tks
Currently my google ads are for “bear gays”
I might have to change my channel name to “anon & mouse”
I mentioned a Junior hockey players name once & got hockey school ads. so mentioning a rodent may get even wierder… altough your current ads are pretty wierd.. to me.
It’s funny how all I have to do is mention democrat, or republican in a lesson and then all of my Google ads become Obama or McCain related.
Is it funny or Ironic? Well if you ask a Canadian, he would ask a Super Teacher. So “funny” works… but if the ads pay the bills, then the bills are paid by political campaign money, that’s “Ironic”… isn’t it?
Billy did you notice in the ironic video teach was wearing her pig tails. I guess M was feeling dominate that day.
Do a video on money and see if they send you some or put up bank adds
What other kind of ad catagories do they have?
If you mentioned cruises, would you get recruiting ad for the Navy or the Carnival Line?
Wetsuit did you protest CT’s video on the email link you posted?
Not without permission of the teach.
Heheheheheh Now you learned the secret how Google links it ads with what your searching for. This is why google is so successful in their adwords campaign. All this data is linked with a cookie on our browser. Even I was able to find out that you have two computers at your home.
Spooky hu? In my gmail account, the ads to the right of my email are related to keywords in the email Im reading. This is why google offers free email accounts and 6 gigs of email storage. All my ads are related to getting a USCG captain’s license.
I want a rematch! Oh you so fun to play with Marina. 
Wait. Why am I telling you all this? I be you already know all this. Damn you got me again.
Neither. I oppose 2-party systems. A country is better governed by a coalition of smaller parties, where no single party holds absolute power.
Kobe must have been busy voting last night.
Marina has picked up 167 votes compared to Mr Trippy who only picked up 7 votes.
It helps to have a global exposure.
Staunch Republican.
I thought that a republican form of government was one in which the citizens voted on representatives to govern in their interest. In contract, a democracy occurs when all citizens vote directly on new laws, treaties, etc.
tampa1205, I was saying that the words etymologically mean the same thing. Also.. if you think about it.. even in a democracy, the people don’t vote on everything.. they elect officials who vote on most of the items for them. I think they are the same thing, though some countries probably call themselves “The Republic of..” when they really aren’t.
How true how true.
The Peoples Republic of China.
The Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea.
I had a very nitpicky civics teacher in college. He argued that no true democracy has ever existed. The US is by definition a republic, not a democracy. That is where I was getting those definitions, fuzzy memory of a class taken many years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Park_Republican
I’m a South Park Republican. “I hate conservatives; but I really fucking hate liberals.”
Well I pretty much vote for the more appealing candidte. So I might be a democrat and then next time a republican. Right now I wont disclose my affiliation.
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I am a GDI, Godda*n Independent. But, I can be considered a conservative, in the original meaning of the word, not the current politicized meaning.
Marina 1375 votes
Trippy 1161 votes
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Thanks for pointing out the typo pedanticKarl! And for supporting me on the contest… like I said before.. I never seem to ever win these things.. and he we go again.. this time I might possibly be beaten by a video featuring ME in it!
Thank you for letting us get to know you through your videos and your comments. It is with great pleasure that I support all of your work. I have been inspired by your wonderful videos and you being forthright and tenacious as well as being caring and having a wonderful sense of humor. With kind regards, Karl
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Concerning charlestrippy video which contains plagiarized content, non original content, and 3rd party copywrited material in violation of the rules.
This is the organization that is the sponsor, made the rules and makes all the decisions.
I’m totally Democrat. I would urge everyone, though to think about the messages we see—especially as we look at “scientific evidence” and statistics!!!
As an example, let’s look at the passage of the Civil Rights. If you just look at the numbers, you will see that there were actually a HIGHER PERCENTAGE of Republicans in both houses of Congress who voted FOR the Civil Rights Act (CRA)–Republicans COULD be quick to point that out.
However, you would need to look at the actual numbers to see the whole story. There were MORE DEMOCRATS who voted for the CRA at the time. How can that happen?? Well, more Democrats were in control at that time. Then, when you break it up by north/south instead of Dem/Rep, you would see that there were few republicans in the south in the early 1960s AND that southern congressmen (BOTH democrat & republican) voted against the civil rights act. On the other hand, northern congressmen voted FOR the CRA, regardless of their party affiliation. Since many of those in power in the south were democrats in the 60s, and since it was only southerners who rebelled en masse against the CRA, the majority of those available to rebel were Democrats, ALTHOUGH it was the Democrats (JFK) who was the mastermind of the Civil Rights Amendment and MORE Democrats voted FOR the CRA than against it. All I’m saying is that we need NOT beware, but rather be AWARE of stats. Higher numbers OR % doesn’t show us everything
Nice point, Duke. We tend to make a lot of snap judgments and assumptions without looking before we leap. My own state was a single party state at the time… Democrat. I have not looked at the voting record of my state concerning the CRA, largely out of fear of the shame I am likely to find. But then, my state has been divided against itself since its inception.
Yeah, we are wired to make decisions WITH our emotions in mind. Just because we point to “hard evidence” with numbers,
(1) there is a bigger story than the sole apparance of a number
(2) the way those numbers make us feel ALSO plays into decision making.
As for your state and it’s history:
Looking & working forward with the past in mind brings us change 
Whether we talk about people or states, they CAN be defined by their history, but they CAN be defined by their current actions and efforts for the future
Said another way in The Art of War, those who do not know themselves and do not know their enemy are doomed to failure. Those who know themselves, but not their enemy, have a fighting chance. Those who know themselves AND their enemy can carry the day. The point: when entities know themselves (i.e., mistakes, weaknesses, AND strengths), they are more in control of what’s to come, and may even prevent conflict