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TopicI never knew that the southern confederates were democrats in the civil war
CableZL
02/09/20 5:18:46 PM
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Specifically, they were Southern Democrats. Yes, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed with a Republican majority vote, but Barry Goldwater was the Republican party's nominee for president in 1964 and he was staunchly against the Civil Rights Act. He was defeated by LBJ, who went on to sign the act into law.

And there's the whole matter of the southern strategy Republicans successfully used to convince racist voters in the south to switch from the Southern Democrats to the Republican party.

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