A River in Egypt

What the e-mail from a Republican asked:

1) The Dixiecrat party was made up of Southern
a) Democrats
b) Republicans

2) Jim Crow laws were passed by legislatures controlled by:
a) Democrats
b) Republicans

3) When the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led the civil rights efforts in the South, the governing powers that opposed him were of which party?
a) Democrat
b) Republican

4) In Arkansas, the governor who stood in the door of a schoolhouse to block integration was a:
a) Democrat
b) Republican

5) The president who ordered in the National Guard to dislodge the above-mentioned governor from the above-mentioned door was a:
a) Democrat
b) Republican

6) George Wallace was a:
a) Democrat
b) Republican

7) Lester Maddox was a:
a) Democrat
b) Republican

The correct answer, in all cases, is "a) Democrat".


What a person who was serious and truthful about US History might ask (don't take my word for it, you're sensible people, look it up):

1) When LBJ got the Voting Rights Act of 1964 passed, the members of the Dixiecrat party joined the
a) Democrats
b) Republicans

2) The people who passed Jim Crow laws now belong to which party?
a) Democratic
b) Republican

3) Which party do those who opposed Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights efforts in the South now belong to?
a) Democratic
b) Republican

4) If a governor were to stand in the door of a schoolhouse to block integration today, he/she would be a:
a) Democrat
b) Republican

5) If today a president were to order in the National Guard to dislodge the above-mentioned governor from the above-mentioned door, he/she would be a:
a) Democrat
b) Republican
c) Either

6) If he were starting in politics today, George Wallace would be a:
a) Democrat
b) Republican

7) If he were starting in politics today, Lester Maddox would be a:
a) Democrat
b) Republican

The correct answer in all cases, except for #5, is "b) Republican". The correct answer to 5 would be "c".