Republican or Democrat

[Lemur]

Why would racists vote for republicans instead of democrats because this bill was passed?

And if I were making the argument that all Republicans throughout all of history were a bunch of racists, you would have knocked me out of the park.

My point was that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 begat the Southern Strategy, which led to the re-alignment that you see today. Republicans, whose base was originally industrial-state abolitionists, became a Southern party, while Democrats, who used to be the party of the rural South, became a coastal and Northern party.