52.50% - LBJ said passing the Civil Rights Act would lose Democrats the South for a generation — he was right, and that's historical fact, not a Southern Strategy conspiracy theory.
27.50% - The deplorable people the GOP were for years too worried to alienate, are now taking control of the party.
20.00% - Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, HUD — all LBJ's legacy; the modern Democratic Party has been defending and expanding that welfare state ever since.
Southern white voters shifted from the Democratic to the Republican Party during the 1960s and 1970s.
57.50% - LBJ said passing the Civil Rights Act would lose Democrats the South for a generation — he was right, and that's historical fact, not a Southern Strategy conspiracy theory.
22.50% - The deplorable people the GOP were for years too worried to alienate, are now taking control of the party.
50.00% - Southern white voters shifted from the Democratic to the Republican Party during the 1960s and 1970s.
50.00% - The major parties effectively switched positions on race during the civil rights era, as the voting record shows.
0.00% - Southern whites shifted allegiance from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party during the 1960s and 1970s.
50.00% - Civil Rights Act of 1957