The GOP's new fake racial history - War Room - Salon.com
Traditionally, they had been staunch Democrats, but they were also culturally conservative, and as
Lyndon Johnson and the
Democratic Party embraced civil rights once and for all, they were up for grabs. The Republican Party offered them a home, a steady, decades-long realignment ensued, and today conservative
Southern whites comprise the heart of the GOP -- just as culturally
liberal Northerners, who called the GOP home before civil rights, have migrated to the Democratic Party.
There's nothing new about this story. In fact, it's the story LBJ himself predicted when he signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964 and supposedly mused, "There goes the South for a generation."
