Or, were LBJ & Co clever enough to know that they were creating a permanent entitlement society, void of the need for a breadwinner/father, and offering a perpetual voting bloc?
It wasn’t so much of an entitlement society they were hoping to create as a dependent society.
They also honestly believed only blacks would ever be on welfare and become dependent on the govt.
With all the blacks leaving their jobs to go on welfare there was going to be all these jobs for whites.
My old man was an FDR dem. Voted repub for DED then went back to. dem.
LBJ was the last dem president my old man ever voted for.