And I could go into the democrats, but I've done it before. Only one dixiecrat became a republican, Strom Thurmond. The rest of the gang that opposed the 64 civil rights act on race (Goldwater opposed it on the forcing you to do stuff, different reason) never became republicans.
There were in fact only
two Dixiecrats -- Thurmond and his running mate Wright -- who died around 1956.
The "rest of the gang" I don't really know who you mean but I know Jesse Helms switched, and so did Trent Lott.
They did there were a few, but not that many. The 64 civil rightmost actually no voters had one democrat switch out of 23. Guys like george wallace and William fulbright never switched.
Tn didn't have a Republican house until 2008.
And if you want to see racism, work for a black republican, the racism doesn't come from the conservative republicans. I worked for rod deberry 1994 9th congressional district as a college kid and I never saw real racism until then. And it was the nasty from both white and black democrats.
This is the next place I would have gone to make that point from the repost --- that point being that it's about regions and cultures and South versus North, not about political parties ----
CRA vote 1964 (for this purpose "Northern" means "everybody not in the South"):
The original House version:
- Southern Democrats: 7–87 (7–93%)
- Southern Republicans: 0–10 (0–100%)
- >>> ALL SOUTHERNERS: 7-97 (6.7%--93.3%)
- Northern Democrats: 145–9 (94 – 6%)
- Northern Republicans: 138–24 (85 – 15%)
- >>> ALL NORTHERNERS: 283-33 (89.6%--11.4%)
The Senate version:
- Southern Democrats: 1–20 (5–95%)
- Southern Republicans: 0–1 (0–100%)
- Northern Democrats: 45–1 (98–2%)
- Northern Republicans: 27–5 (84–16%)
- ALL SOUTHERNERS: 1--21 (4.5%--95.5%)
- ALL NORTHERNERS: 72--6 (92.3%--7.7%)
Yes, there is a party pattern in that each line shows slightly more support from the D side than the R side. But again, 94 versus 85 on one side is not at all significant.
But
96 on one side versus 92 on the other side?? You just hit the motherlode.
The numbers don't lie; your pattern is clearly there but it's
regional, not political. A
You take the numbers from the North -- both Dems and Repubs are for it.
You take the numbers from the South -- both Dems and Repubs are agin' it.
It's truly bipartisan in both directions. (!)
This is where the party-partisan mythology crumbles to dust. This was a regional issue, not a political party one. QED.