Actually , I'm not wrong. There was a huge migration at the national level after the Civil Rights Act from the Democratic Party to the GOP. Why do you think LBJ utter the phrase, I've lost the South....
Originally Posted by WTF
i dont care what his point was...its your point that i am contending against
if you will take the time, and have an inclination toward anything like an open mind on this you may be surprised
before the civil rights movement the republicans were making inroads in the south, in 1928 Hoover won several border states.
of course during the depression roosevelt won across the board so its hard to make anything of that since the whole country was swept
but in 1952 and 1956 Eisenhower won Virginia, Florida and Tennessee, as did Nixon in 1960.
Goldwater won southern states in 1964
so all the while jim crow was in force and pre-the civil rights movement, while racist democrats were in-charge, republicans were making inroads in the south
in 1972 Nixon swept the whole country except DC and Massachusetts so its hard to say the racist south went republican then
it wasnt until 1988, with G.H. Bush can anyone say that republicans did better in the south than in other parts of the country
so there wasnt anything ever like a sudden switch to republicans becasue of civil rights...
any switch to republicans had to do with the extremism of the democrats
during the civil rights movement, when republicans were the reason the '64 civil rights act passed, there was Clinton's mentor, J. William Fullbright, of whom Clinton praised mightily, and Gore's father, Albert, fighting tooth and nail against it.
of course there was Robert C. Bryd, life long democrat, praised by democrats during and after his death, member of the KKK, the only senator to vote against both black supreme court nominees, Thurgood Marshall and ClarenceThomas
thurmond of south carolina did switch parties, finally, in order to be elected...but that was more of him controlling the state apparatus and the electorate changing and he did have a softening of his heart as the times changed.
