[Wallace T.]

The irony is that Southern Democrats effectively disenfranchised blacks through “white only” Democrat primaries (almost all of the former Confederate states were dominated by Democrats), as well as literacy tests and poll taxes. By these means, whites dominated black majority counties in areas such as the Mississippi Delta. Southern state legislatures were lily white between the 1890s and the 1960s, and were dominated by Democrats.

[ckilmer]

after 1964 the democrat party shifted from being a white racist party to being a black racist party.