[Pelham]

“I don’t pay any attention to politicians who label themselves part of a “conservative coalition” or as a “tea-party “

The conservative coalition was a very real alliance of conservative Democrats and Republicans in Congress.

http://www.conservapedia.com/Conservative_Coalition

“The Conservative Coalition was a coalition in the U.S. Congress that brought together the majority of the Northern Republicans and a conservative, mostly Southern minority of the Democrats. The coalition usually defeated the liberals of the New Deal Coalition; the Coalition largely controlled Congress from 1937 to 1963. It continued as a potent force until the 1990s when most of the conservative southern Democrats were replaced by southern Republicans. The coalition no longer exists.

In its heyday, its most important Republican leader until his death in 1963 was Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio; Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen was the key Republican in the 1960s. The chief Democrats were Senator Richard Russell, Jr. of Georgia and Congressmen Howard W. Smith of Virginia and Carl Vinson of Georgia. Dirksen and the Republicans broke with Southern Democrats and provided the bipartisan votes necessary to insure passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Between 1939 and 1963, the coalition was able to exercise virtual veto power over domestic legislation, and no major liberal legislation was passed during this entire quarter century. Harry Truman won reelection in 1948 and carried a Democratic Congress, but the only portion of his Fair Deal program that passed was cosponsored by Taft. Under Lyndon Johnson in 1963-65 liberals broke the power of the coalition by passing the Civil Rights Act, which was assisted by a newly-elected liberal Congress in 1964. Congress passed the liberal Great Society programs over the opposition of the coalition. However the coalition regained strength in the 1966 election, in the face of massive rioting in the cities, and the tearing apart of the Democratic New Deal coalition over issues of black power, liberalism, student radicalism and Vietnam.

In 1981 President Ronald Reagan won over enough conservative southern Democrats—called Boll Weevils— to carry his major tax cuts through a House nominally controlled by the Democrats. Led by Congressman Phil Gramm of Texas,[1] they helped Reagan enact many of his domestic policy proposals, to increase defense spending sharply, and to block leftists attacks on Reagan’s anti-Communist policies in Central America. They also helped dismantle some of the remnants of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. Reagan did not campaign against them, so they kept their seats a few years longer.

After 1994 the Republicans took control of most of the conservative southern districts, so the Southern Democratic part of the coalition has largely evaporated. “

[Tau Food]

The Congress was dominated by Southern leadership when it passed Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs. Wilbur Mills, from Arkansas (that's a Southern state), was Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee throughout the entirety of Johnson's presidency. And, of course, Lyndon Johnson was from Texas (that's another Southern state).

Is it really your argument that Northern liberals somehow passed the Great Society program without the support of Southern politicians? They were running the show back then.