My assessment isn't true? Look at the Congress(es) of the 1950s, the 1960s. and the early 1970S. Look at the political actors. Look at the actions of the various southern state troopers when faced with "colored" demonstrators and marchers on roads and bridges! Look at the orders and self blind folding of the obscenely racist republican party. Look at the Dixiecrats who used their positions as stone wallers and bigots. Look at the 1860s methods of the southern citizenry to maim, kill and separate humanity with violent FORCE and the defenses posted for their actions by their elected leaders along with current bigots who strive ONLY to wrench apart American citizens with emotion and LIES!
The leaders in the dixiecrat/republican camps of that time are no different from the so-called democrats of the 1860s or the right wing fascist republicans of today. They switched positions, NOT the racism or LIES! They are in reality racists, totalitarianists, anti feminists and every bit the radical nazis that We The People faced down and defeated in WWII! It is simple. Today's democrats are NOT the democrats of 1860. To state otherwise is a blatant, foul, LIE! They were democrats turned and are the WORST...republican NAZIs! They are political SWINE!