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"All those Segregationists fled to the GOP,"
That lie has been debunked. democRATs need to embrace their racist heritage.
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.
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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