> The Democrat south tried to block the civil rights act.
You do know that the racist southern White Democrats generally switched parties in the years following Johnson’s support of the Civil Rights Act and the Republican Southern Strategy which focused on appealing to those disaffected racists the way the Republican failed to the last time they got upset with a Democrat supporting civil rights in the 1940s, right?
There’s a reason its not the Democrats waving Confederate battle flags around and having their presidential candidates endorsed by the KKK any more.
You do know that the racist southern White Democrats generally switched parties in the years following Johnson’s support of the Civil Rights Act and the Republican Southern Strategy which focused on appealing to those disaffected racists the way the Republican failed to the last time they got upset with a Democrat supporting civil rights in the 1940s, right?
There’s a reason its not the Democrats waving Confederate battle flags around and having their presidential candidates endorsed by the KKK any more.