Here's the vote tally for the civil rights act, please note the repubs over 80% while the racists dem are only in the 60s.
yep, and then the racist white southerners became Republicans. Case in point - Strom Thurmond was a Democrat until 1964 before becoming a Republican. Thank Nixon's "Southern Strategy."
Fast-forward to 2010 and there continues to be a pattern among Republicans to stroke racial fears of southern whites.
Nixon political strategist Kevin Phillips in 1970 said:
From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don't need any more than that... but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats
