[babble-on]

Thad Cochran was a Democrat, too,... until the mid 1960s.

The Dems all became Republicans because LBJ gave the blacks civil rights. The Blacks, who had been relatively split, all became Democrats at about the same time. It’s history. It happened.

[fieldmarshaldj]

"The Dems all became Republicans because LBJ gave the blacks civil rights."

Demonstrably false. The political realignments were far more complicated than your simplistic and incorrect claims throughout this thread.