Like the Southern Democrat Senators in 1964 who voted against the Civil Rights bill? Like Albert Gore Sr. for example? It is a fact little communicated by the media, that a significantly higher percentage of Senate Republicans voted for the 1964 Civil Rights bill than did Democrats.
I was reading a musty old transcript of some attorney's interview of one of Judge Minor Wisdom (I think) some months ago. If the Democrat senators voted against the Civil Rights bill, I think that had more to do with their cranking the unrest as part of the 60's gramscian Revolution (of which the Civil Rights struggle was only a part) than it did actual sentiment and smarts of Southerners.
It's as if GOP votes in favor of abort legislation actually reflected the views of the constituents who voted them in based on their "personal" pro-life convictions, in other words.
In any case, I'm of the opinion that the North (as always) talks and votes a good game but likes to keep the black folks at a distance while southerners are more apt to treat them like real people and take them into their homes. The worst examples of racism I've seen since living in the South have been courtesy of transplant Yanks and blacks themselves who've been brainwashed by the hateful faction that usurped King and killed Malcolm.