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Here was the House Vote as well.

I had a father-in-law once who was a flaming democrat. He actually moved the family so his daughters wouldn't have to go to school with blacks at Wilkes Central.

Not way more...a higher percentage. 80% to 69% Again its region based not political.

Another Inconvenient Truth Libs/Dems Always forget. Way More Republicans voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act than Democrats

Did you know that there was not one single Republican politician in southern states that voted for the Civil Rights act?

Wasn't former KKK member Robert Byrd (D-WV) from Wilkes?

Actually I Can and did as posted below

Although that quote is not fact and was in a book written in a book 30 years after Johnson was in office, he probably did say it. He was all about political gain. However to prove my point, he was from Texas a southern state. Civil Rights was pushed by Northern Politicians both Democrat and Republican. It was a bipartisan effort, something we have forgotten about today. It was completely opposed by those in the South, who where conservative democrats that moved into the Republican Party as a result of the signing of the bill. Northern Democrats are the reason the bill passed, and they are the reason the South turned against the party.

Another Inconvenient Truth Libs/Dems Always forget what LBJ said when signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, "We'll have the n*****s voting democrat for the next fifty years." It all goes to intent and there is no getting around the democrat plantation mentality.The historical record is irrefutable.

You are as big of a hypocrite as you clam the Democrats are. Here are some Inconvenient Truths you are avoiding. The southern democrats no longer exist. By signing the Civil Rights bill Lyndon Johnson made the quote "We have lost the South for a Generation" meaning the democrat party would no longer exist in the south. He was right. Look at the election against Johnson. The South voted for Barry Goldwater(Republican) who was against the Civil Rights Act. Then it was Nixon who took on the policy to appeal to the white racist voters of the south. As a matter of fact, there is evidence that Nixon and Goldwater(Both Republicans) Helped Strom Thurmond(Then a democrat) with his filibuster of the Civil Rights Act. Look at the vote, the Civil Rights act was passed by a majority of democrats. Those that opposed became the modern day Republican party.

It's my hope that Truth and Pwan are just parody posters and don't actually believe what they are saying. If they do believe said, I doubt they could actually define what they mean by "liberal" in the political economy context. The evolution of labels over the decades and centuries have migrated to the point of absolute conflation.

The Republican Party is the child of the Whig Party, which is itself a child of the Democrat-Republican Party. It was not a "new party", it was the segment of Whigs that could not overcome their internal splits. The core of that party is mercantilism and business. The Democratic Party is also a child of the Dem-Repub split driven in part by the Presidency of Andrew Jackson.

The Republican Party was a "northern" party, as was the Whigs. The Democratic Party was a "southern" party and also tied to landed and commodity interests. The Republican Party was an urban party at the forefront commercial trade and business, the Democratic party was a rural party tied to landed interests.

As the party of the landed class, the Democratic Party post 1876 (Reconstruction) was a bifurcated party with two wings - a southern wing based on land and white votes, and a northern wing based on labor interests. For the period after Reconstruction and until 1932, the Republican Party was the party of Big Business, the natural enemy of labor and of the landed class.

The Depression and the mess that Coolidge dumped on Hoover, set the stage for the parties to reverse dominance as FDR managed to tie the Southern Landed Class, Whites, Northern Labor, and Northern Blacks to form a new Democratic Party. It took another 30 years for the Democratic Party to push out the Southern Landed Class which swung to the Republican Party after the Civil Rights Act, and Nixon's Southern Strategy.

The Democratic Party now represents mostly urban interests, labor, and variety of specialty interests, while the Republican Party now represents most rural interests, Southern Whites, and the large business/industrial sector.

Once the "Era of Good Feeling" was over, parties arose, but they are true parties in name only, what they are in fact are a set of opposing interests. If we had a parliamentary system instead of first past the post (winner take all) we would have the following viable parties - the crazy left wing green party, the crazy right wing religious party, the business party, the labor party, and a general centrist party that usually would govern with a sometimes coalition with one of the above parties - this is what you have in Germany.

The gross oversimplification of American political history is a uniquely American thing. This is the only nation in the world that doesn't have much of a memory past the last generation. Calling the Democratic Party the party of Slavery is like calling the Republican Party the party of isolationism and Nazism while there is an element of truth that applies to a certain point in time, the label writ large does not fit because neither party is a coherent party, but a collection of ever-changing interests.

I fear for the future of the Republic.

Mr Truth. Libs are immoral in fact they hate morals that's how they become liberals .

Another Inconvenient TRUTH The fact that all those Selma marchers were gassed and beaten by democrats

I always enjoy the platform that some like to attempt to justify saying that the Democratic Party was responsible for the KKK, etc. and the Republicans were the first abolitionists back in the 1850's. Do your homework and read beyond the short blurbs so easily found and designed to discredit. There was quite a shift in the 1960's southern states in what we call conservatism and liberalism based on the Civil Rights Movement. Most southern states went with the Democrats for decades based on what they were still getting from the basis of reconstruction. After the Civil Rights Movement, we see these same folks changing from blue to red states based on social agenda. To compare the two parties earlier beyond the Civil Rights Movement is time well wasted.

I can cut and paste history as well. Below is the Civil Rights Vote of 1964. It clearly had very little to do with party, but had everything to do with region. The parties as OCM has stated has completely changed. Those racist Southern Democrats became the Southern Conservative Republicans.