Two-thirds of the white population of Kansas City, the figures show, voted against what is roughly the equivalent of the Civil Rights Bill pending in Congress. The measure carried just the same, as the result of a successful drive to register Negroes, who went on to vote overwhelmingly in favor of the measure. Since there are not cis many Negro voters in most other parts of the country as there are in Kansas City, the adverse vote by the great majority of the white population seems to carry greater political weight for the country at large than the technical victory scored by the winning side.
Buckley
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