Comment by Eisenstein
12 hours ago
Correction: it was actually southern Democrats that did Jim Crow. The Democratic party used to be quite different before the civil rights bill.
12 hours ago
Correction: it was actually southern Democrats that did Jim Crow. The Democratic party used to be quite different before the civil rights bill.
No, it was Republicans (today) who used to be democrats in that era. parties are made up of people, it was the same people or their ideological inheritors. Many republicans today in congress (especially leadership) were of voting age in that era. a 20 year old in 1969 would be 75 today, younger than the current and former president.
Were they Democrats at that time, or not?