Because half of Congress wasn't there, it was called "Reconstruction!"
So segregation was outlawed in 1919, when the streets of Chicago and Omaha ran red with the blood of black Americans? I guess they drove through the streets of Milwaukee randomly killing black people because they were Southern? Is THAT the spin? All of this history of violence against black people from 1875 to 1964 in the Great Liberal North, that was because those black people were from the South, is that it?
Where are the courageous leaders standing up for desegregation during all of this? Woodrow Wilson? Did HE do anything about what was happening in America? What was HIS stance on desegregating society, can you tell me?
The vast and overwhelming majority of America, did not want desegregation in the society in which THEY lived! You can throw up all the irrelevant examples you want, THAT is a FACT! History proves it is a fact! If you wish to pretend that sentiments toward blacks were the same in 1875 as they are today, you are a fool and a moron, and I am not wasting any more time debating this with you. If this is just about taking a slap at the South, again, I don't have time to waste with that. Unless you can support something in the insanity you've presented, we are done here. People didn't want desegregation, and we didn't have it, until the mid 60s, and it was a struggle even then! There are STILL people who don't want to be desegregated!
But if there were NO polititians who supported it, how did it pass.