Civil Rights
Journalist Ron Filipkowski claims that “the white southern Dixiecrats” — a group of Democrats infamous for opposing civil rights — “all switched to Republicans in the 1970–80s.”
IN FACT, only 1 of the 21 Democrat Senators who voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 later became a Republican. This and many other facts show that Republicans have consistently supported civil rights as Democrats pitted races against each other.
