(August 9, 2018 at 12:47 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Members of Congress matter because they objectively represent changes to both the DNC and the GOP before and after the passage of the Civil Right Act. You are stating a subjective interpretation based on a narrative the DNC has fostered to cover-up it's sordid and inescapable past. It is based on slanderous stereotypes of Southerners. It makes no sense to me that hardened racists would magically repent to join the party who voted for the Civil Rights Act. There is no logic to that. Democrats want to believe that the "State's rights" policies of the GOP represented a call to return to the Jim Crow laws of the Democrats. The fact is that the GOP, having successfully passing the Civil Rights Act against the will of most Democrats, shifted its attention towards matters that moderate Southerners cared about such as abortion, prayer in schools, etc.
As I said, cultural resentments.
