FuzzNJ wrote:True!
Here's more truth.
It wasn't a D vs R issue, it was a regional one.
Democrats from the north voted overwhelmingly for the 1964 bill. From the south overwhelmingly against it. Both the senate and the house. Same for the republicans.
Democrats held the south from reconstruction up to this point. The southern democrats didn't agree with their northern counterparts, became republicans, ala Thurmond. Then, seeing an opening and a way to win back the south, the republicans employed the Southern Strategy and have held the south since pretty well.
Um wrong again about the mass exodus of the Dixiecrats.
only 3 switched parties...
How many Dixiecrats joined the GOP after 1964?
How many pre-1964 southern racist Democrat bigots did NOT join the Republican party after 1964?
Orval Fabus
Benjamin Travis Laney
John Stennis
James Eastland
Allen Ellender
Russell Long
John Sparkman
John McClellan
Richard Russell
Herman Talmadge
George Wallace
Lester Maddox
John Rarick
Robert Byrd
Al Gore, Sr.
Bull Connor
In fact, it seems that MOST of the Dixiecrats did NOT join the Republican party, even though many of them lived long past 1964.
Only a very FEW of them switched to the GOP, such as Strom Thurmond and Mills Godwin.
And as we all know by now, the ONLY admitted former KKK member in Congress as of late is Robert Byrd, a former KKK Kleagle, a recruiter who persuaded people to join the KKK.
So where do we get this myth that "most" of the southern racist Democrats switched to the Republican party after 1964?
Is it a myth?
Or just another Democrat LIE?