The Democratic Party, on the other hand, was, until the 1960s, the party of the South. It was the party of social conservatism. It wanted to preserve slavery and segregation. The party’s Southern contingent generally opposed the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. It was the party of states’ rights, small government, and Jim Crow. They wouldn’t even allow Black people to be present at their convention until 1924.
Is this how Texas used to be blue? Is there any hope?
