You are Lyndon Johnson; it is 1964 [View All]

[CTLawGuy]

the Civil Rights Act of 1964 comes on your desk. It grants full equality to African Americans and other minorities. It ends segregation. The South, which is a HUGE block of the Democratic Constituency, vehemently opposes it and threatens to leave the party if you sign it.

Knowing that if you sign the bill, the Democratic Majority will be lost for a generation, do you sign the bill? or do you veto it and let the Democrats rule for the next 40 years or more?

So which is it? Doing what is right, or winning? What would you do?

I'm especially interested in what moderates think.