Speaking of cherry picking...it was passed by northern Republicans who later were driven out of.tje southern party by their southern members. That is the misrepresentation.
Your claim is based on skewed statistics and is quite common. Here is one of many sources that addresses it.
"The real distinctions to make here are along lines of region and ideology, not party. Put simply, southern conservatives in both parties resisted it.
Here's the vote broken down by region:
(See article. It would not copy paste)
All right, now we can get back to the sleight of hand that lies at the heart of the percentage game
The conservative pundits who make that argument are essentially trying to use the votes of mostly liberal and moderate Republicans, to claim that not only was the Republican Party “the party of civil rights” in 1964, but also that it still is today.
This is ludicrous. When this all unfolded, conservatives were engaged in civil war with these liberals and moderates, trying to drive them out of the Republican Party.
At the 1964 Republican National Convention — which took place just two weeks after President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law with Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders at his side — the GOP nominated Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater to represent them in that year’s presidential race. Though not personally a bigot, Goldwater believed the federal government had no role to play in civil rights and, accordingly, he had voted against the Civil Rights Act that Johnson signed.
The liberal and moderate voices in the Republican Party, who made common cause with liberal and moderate Democrats in the congressional fight, now found themselves on their own and under attack from the rising ranks of conservatives.
New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, a longtime Republican champion of civil rights, called out the party’s extremists at the convention and was roundly booed:
Today is the anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which means we’re guaranteed to see plenty of social media posts about how A Higher Percentage of Republicans Voted for the Civil Rights Act.™
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