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MORON, you are to stupid for words. You may want to go back and review just who voted for and passed the Civil Rights legislation. It was not the Democrats, they voted against it in droves.
After civil rights legislation passed, conservatives bolted from the Democratic Party and swelled the rank of the Republican party becoming the Confederate Republican Party we know today. Since that legislation was passed, only three blacks have been elected to congress from the Republican party while more than 90 from the Democrats. What you are talking about is Conservative vs Liberal, NOT Democrat vs Republican.
In the US House in the original house version only 20% (138-34) of the Republicans voted against the legislation while 39% (96 of 152) voted against it amongst the Democrats. Almost exactly 3 times as many Democrats as Republicans voted against it.
In the original US Senate version amongst the republicans 18% voted against it (27-6) and amongst the Dems 31% (46-21) voted against it. Three-and-a-half times as many Dems as Reps voted against it.
Who besides Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms "bolted" to the Republican Party? It does appear that those two were conservatives, and they left for a more conservative party; who were the others?
What? Nearly the entire population of conservatives. Why do you think the Republican party of today is 90% white and only three blacks have been elected to congress from the Republican Party since the 60s while more than 90 black Democrats have been elected.
You can't seriously say that a party that is 90% white and whose elected officials nationwide are more than 96% white is a "leader" in civil rights. Surely you can see that's laughable?