Guess this proves Republicans still hate poor people.
Why NO! It proves the Republicans didn't do this kind of shit and never would have...
NOTE: AN MSNBC ARTICLE
Lyndon Johnson was a civil rights hero. But also a racist. MSNBC
Excerpt
Then in 1957, Johnson would help get the “ni*ger bill” passed, known to most as the Civil Rights Act of 1957. With the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the segregationists would go to their graves knowing the cause they’d given their lives to had been betrayed,
Frank Underwood style, by a man they believed to be one of their own. When Caro asked segregationist Georgia Democrat Herman Talmadge how he felt when Johnson, signing the Civil Rights Act, said
”we shall overcome,” Talmadge said “sick.”
Another excerpt
According to Caro, Robert Parker, Johnson’s sometime chauffer, described in his memoir
Capitol Hill in Black and White a moment when Johnson asked Parker whether he’d prefer to be referred to by his name rather than “boy,” “******” or “chief.” When Parker said he would, Johnson grew angry and said, “As long as you are black, and you’re gonna be black till the day you die, no one’s gonna call you by your goddamn name. So no matter what you are called, ******, you just let it roll off your back like water, and you’ll make it. Just pretend you’re a goddamn piece of furniture.”
Then there's this
Lyndon Baines Johnson 1963... "These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference... I'll have them nig*ers voting Democratic for the next two hundred years".
I did some googling, and it seems that the only source I could find linked to this was from an unofficial biography. I was wondering if
/r/AskHistorians could weigh in on the issue?