I must be stupid if what you say is correct. I always thought the Goldwater against civil rights was dumb. LBJ won the election and a year later the Great Society was born. Had Goldwater been for civil rights then maybe the republicans would have Won the White House and the Great Society would have not happened. What exactly is wrong with Constitutional Rights for all American Citizens?!
There were already rights for all Americans. The Civil Rights Acts brought the federal government into absolutely everything and reduced the states to zeros on the map. All these insane court decisions punishing people for not wanting to be involved in homo weddings are the same line of reasoning.
If I do not want to sell my house to you because I don’t like the shape of your head then that is my business not that of federal bureaucrats.
A recent documentary stated that boxing great Joe Louis was “not free” because he could not buy a house in a snotty New Jersey lake-front suburb. Louis moved around everywhere, made buckets of money, was wildly popular by fight fans of all races, and yet this documentary stated he was not free. The fact is that snotty suburb had the right of freedom of association and if their homeowners did not want “The Brown Bomber” in their neighborhood they were free not to take his money.
So you think the entire Affirmative Discrimination bureaucracy that covers the country now is "Constitutional"?
EO 11246 which Johnson issued would have no authority except for the '64 Act.
Goldwater was right. But his defeat came from Johnson painting him as a warmonger, not as a closet Confederate. In 1965, even if he had been - and he was far from it - it wasn't that big of a deal. The country was still 90% white.