Those good ol’ Republicans who never read a white lie they didn’t like would like you to believe that Republicans supported the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Democrats opposed it, which is only partially true. To understand the change in both parties’ ideology, all one has to do is count the votes.9 There were ninety-four Southern Democrats in the House of Representatives. Eight voted for the bill. There were eleven Southern Republicans in the House of Representatives. Zero voted for the bill. The Northern House Democrats voted in favor of the bill 145–9. The Northern House Republicans favored
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