Deacfreak07
Ain't played nobody, PAWL!
Something that gets lost in history is that the republicans provided the necessary votes to goth get cloture (end of debate) in the Senate and to pass the Civil Rights Act by voting 27-6 in favor. 23 democrats deserted their party and were the "solid south" democratic bloc that opposed all civil rights legislation. The democrats held 67 Senate seats (of 100) but the southern democrats were adamant that there would be no Civil Rights Act. There was a filibuster. Senator Al Gore (Sr,) was one of the southern democrats who participated in the filibuster and refused to support any Civil Rights legislation.
It is ironic that the party which ran the Jim Crow south is now the party supported by black voters.
You get why that is, right?