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Example - Civil Rights Act[edit]
CNN made a classic mistake of ignoring a confounding variable in their retrospective on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, by repeating the myth that more Republicans supported the bill,[1] going so far as to link to an article that explains why the opposite its true.[2] On the surface the argument seems compelling:
| Democratic | Republican | |
|---|---|---|
| House | 152 of 243 (62.5%) | 137 of 172 (79.6%) |
| Senate | 46 of 67 (68.6%) | 27 of 33 (81.8%) |
| Overall | 198 of 310 (63.9%) | 164 of 205 (80.0%) |
They ignored the fact that it was not simply a Democratic/Republican divide, there was also a North/South divide