The Democrats try to counter their real history by saying that the Republicans and Democrats “swapped” ideologies back in the 1960s. Like they flipped a coin or something. I think that’s why they don’t teach real history in school anymore.
Goldwater was the Republican nominee for President. Goldwater was against civil rights. The adult white southern Democrats continued to vote Democrat. Their children looked At Goldwater and said let’s hate Johnson cause he is for civil rights and let’s cheer for Goldwater cause he is against civil rights. Goldwater flipped the voter registration of the South. Goldwater was an idiot. In a landslide Johnson got elected and got civil rights into law. Long live civil rights. Then Johnson got the Great Society Welfare State signed into law. Had Goldwater been for civil rights there may have been a Republican President and the Welfare State May not have been created. Goldwater and the Republicans flipped the South.