Amazing how they can try to erase history, assuming that most Americans are stupid and will believe anything. Well, they are partly right, most dems will believe any crap their pandering leaders tell them. Next thing will be how the republicans started the KKK, and how Lincoln was a democrat.
And they already talk about how progressive LBJ was on race relations, ignoring the fact that he personally voted against civil rights for blacks while both a congressman and senator and also that what he actually did sign as President needed the support from all Republicans to clear the House and Senate, IIRC.
You summed it up nicely. I posted before I read your response. (Basically, we think alike!)