[Baynative]

Didn’t LBJ make a famously repeated comment that if he signed a welfare bill related to the Great Society agenda he would have blacks voting (D) for the rest of the century, or some such?

[fieldmarshaldj]

“I’ll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.” — LBJ

http://patdollard.com/2014/02/flashback-lyndon-johnson-on-phony-war-on-poverty-ill-have-those-niggers-voting-democratic-for-the-next-200-years/

[ansel12]

The problem with making a big deal of the LBJ quote, is that blacks had already permanently switched parties after the 1932 election.