Young Guns, by Rep. Paul Ryan, Rep. Eric Cantor & Rep. Kevin McCarthy: on Civil Rights

Eric Cantor: False myth that GOP is bigoted & intolerant

I know, because it was the Republican Party that gave my father the opportunity to provide a better life for me and my family. Virginia in the 1950s and 1960s was not as open and tolerant a place as it is now. My mom and dad saw firsthand the racial segregation that was the norm at the time.

My father rejected the politics of racial discrimination. And it was in the small but growing Virginia Republican Party that my father found a home. The Republican Party was a place where he could be accepted and supported, both as an American Jew and as an entrepreneur.