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//////////////SouthernFried » 04 Oct 2026, 12:29 pm » wrote: ↑ Tell us. Were the Confederates Democrats, or Republicans?
. Civil Rights and the Final Shift (1960s–1980s)
- Civil Rights Act of 1964: Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law, shifting the Democratic Party into a prominent champion of federal civil rights and minority protections. [1, 2, 3]
- Regional Realignment: Conservative white southern voters—long aligned with the Democratic Party—gradually realigned with the Republican Party, a transition accelerated by the civil rights movement and solidified by the 1980 election of Republican Ronald Reagan