Yeah and Strom Thurmond was responsible for that, and it was one of the reasons Arizona was one of the last states in the country to recognize MLK, Jr.'s birthday.
Strom Thurmond switched parties in order to throw his support to Goldwater, but I don’t think he was the reason Barry opposed the bill. Goldwater opposed the bill because he didn’t believe that the national government had the right to tell individual Americans what they were permitted to think. That used to be a fundamental character of conservatives. Today, the revised Conservative Version 2.0 thinks it’s just swell. And then they wonder how in the world Washington DC became powerful enough to intrude into every other aspect of their lives.