Where did you study history?
Civil Rights legislation came to the floor between "1850's and 1950's". Tell us about it.
I studied history at a private university in the Northeast and am still paying the loans.
Anyway, maybe you misread what I originally wrote. I actually said that the Democrats were the party of racists during those 100 years above and the Republicans the progressive minded liberals (in its historic sense not the label it is today). That began to shift beginning with FDR. The Dixiecrats then began to slowly make the transition over the last 40+ years to the Republican party. In fact, Strom was one of the first.
The term "Souther Democrat" was almost synonymous with racist tendencies. So tell me, where have all the southern Democrats gone . . . wo sind die geblieben?