57.50% - Northern Democrats passed the Civil Rights Act; Southern Democrats left over it and the South went Republican — that's documented history, separate from whatever motivated each individual voter.
42.50% - Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, HUD — all LBJ's legacy; the modern Democratic Party has been defending and expanding that welfare state ever since.
Southern Democrats were alienated from the party by its embrace of the Civil Rights Act.
52.50% - Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, HUD — all LBJ's legacy; the modern Democratic Party has been defending and expanding that welfare state ever since.
47.50% - Northern Democrats passed the Civil Rights Act; Southern Democrats left over it and the South went Republican — that's documented history, separate from whatever motivated each individual voter.
50.00% - Southern Democrats were alienated from the party by its embrace of the Civil Rights Act.
50.00% - Passage of the Civil Rights Act produced exactly the long-term Southern realignment LBJ predicted.
0.00% - Southern Democrats were alienated by the party’s embrace of the civil rights act.
50.00% - Civil rights movement
