Complete Mythological Nonsense:
The Myth of the Republican-Democrat 'Switch':
"After the assassination of President John F. Kennedy--a strong proponent of civil rights--in late 1963, Southern Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson saw it as his mission to pass the CIVIL Rights Act
as a tribute to Kennedy, who had first proposed the bill five months before he was killed. Democrats in the Senate, however, filibustered it.
In June of 1964 though, the bill came up again, and it passed, over the strenuous objections of Southern Democrats. 80% of House Republicans voted for the measure, compared with just 61% of Democrats, while 82% of Republicans in the Senate supported it, compared with 69% of Democrats.
Nearly all of the opposition was, naturally, in the South, which was still nearly unanimously Democratic and nearly unanimously resistant to the changing country. One thing that most assuredly didn't change, though, was party affiliation.
A total of 21 Democrats in the Senate opposed the Civil Rights Act. Only one of them, "Dixiecrat" Strom Thurmond, ever became a Republican. The rest, including Al Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd--a former Exalted Cyclops in the Ku Klux Klan--remained Democrats until the day they died.
Moreover, as those 20 lifelong Democrats retired, their Senate seats remained in Democrat hands for several decades afterwards. So too did the overwhelming majority of the House seats in the South until 1994, when a Republican wave election swept the GOP into control of the House for the first time since 1952.
1994 was also the first time Republicans ever held a majority of House seats in the South--
a full 30 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act.
Dan O'Donnell debunks a popular myth that the two political parties switched positions and that racist southern Democrats became Republicans during the Civil Rights Era.
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Democrats WANT people to believe the "switch" occurred way back when, but that is a myth perpetuated by the Democracts. Meanwhile Joe Biden is the "racist" responsible for the 1994 Crime Bill that led to the incarceration of so many Black Americans over sale and/or possession of tiny amounts of certain drugs.