CableZL posted...Balrog0 posted...
so you're telling me that the switch actually happened in the mid 80s to mid 90s
I'd say it started in the late 1940s. The "Dixiecrats" were those who seceded from the Southern Democratic party because they were opposed to the party's support of extending civil rights to black people in 1948.
Then you have Barry Goldwater who was critical of the Eisenhower administration because he thought their policies were "too liberal for a Republican president." Goldwater was staunchly opposed to the civil rights movement and would become the Republican party's presidential nomination in 1964. Liberal Republicans were opposed to Goldwater. They said he was too far on the right wing of the political spectrum to win a presidential election.
Goldwater lost to the democratic nominee Lyndon B. Johnson. Johnson went on to sign the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law as well as the voting rights act of 1965.
NOPE IT DIDN'T HAPPEN OVERNIGHT
THEY DIDN'T TAKE A VOTE AND IMMEDIATELY CHANGE PARTIES
THAT MEANS YOU'RE WROOOOOOOOONG
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