In 1964, the majority party in both houses of congress were the democrats. A greater portion of republicans than democrats voted for the Civil Rights Act. George Wallace, Bull Connors, Orval Faubus and all the southern segregationists were democrats. Every Jim Crow law written, passed and enforced were done so by democrats. Only one souther democrat, on a national level (Strom Thurmond) joined the republican party and yet somehow the mainstream noise suggests that it is the republicans who are the racists.