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Politics : Mainstream Politics and Economics
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To: TimF who wrote (7410)1/25/2012 6:54:01 AM
From: koan  Read Replies (4) of 85487
 
You need to read some history. The south went from blue to red overnight. LBJ told Bill Moyers after the 1964 civil rights act passed: "we just lost the south for a generation".

And why did they lose the south. Exactly?

<<OT

You know full well those Democratic votes came from "Dixiecrates in the South

Who where Democrats.

who switched to the Republican party right after the 1964 civil rights act

False. Most of the Democrats who voted against the law did not become Republicans.
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