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Originally Posted by hip hop bunny hop
The South used to be Democratic because the Republican Party is the party of Lincoln.
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This Republican Party isn't even the party of Goldwater much less Lincoln.
From the Wikipedia write up on LBJ:
Johnson signed the revised and stronger bill into law on July 2, 1964.[63] Legend has it that, as he put down his pen, Johnson told an aide, "We have lost the South for a generation", anticipating a coming backlash from Southern whites against Johnson's Democratic Party. Moreover, Richard Nixon politically counterattacked with the Southern Strategy where it would "secure" votes for the Republican Party by grabbing the advocates of segregation as well as most of the Southern Democrats.
We can all have our own opinions - but .... you can't piss on people's shoes and tell them its raining, and expect them to believe it.