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Originally Posted by Pete F.
this argument is a little absurd, the Republicans were the party of Lincoln and hated by the south until after the 60s when the Democrats under Kennedy and LBJ moved for voting rights and welfare. At that point the White Democrats of the South went Republican, but not in a day.
The Republicans voted for all the civil rights acts. They integrated the southern schools, all before the "switch." I don't see how that was supposed to be attractive to racist southerners. After the so called switch, the South, unarguably, became less racist.
LBJ was the one who said this:“I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it,” he said. “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”
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LBJ was an ego-centric racist. That "quote" you post, if he actually said it, is racist. He supposedly also said that if he could get the civil rights act passed, the Dems would have the n***ers for two hundred years.