Subject: Re: Reagan Racist
Your BS detector should go off here. There was nothing politically expedient about those acts.

Yes, there was. He recognized that African-Americans weren't going to be denied their rights anymore and he realized that the democrat party need to adopt a different strategy for it to survive. Ceding a large and rising portion of the population to the Republicans would have cost him and his party far more than "the South for a generation".

It's history, it's facts.