Quote Originally Posted by Lyle View Post
While you are partly correct you are also wrong as well.

Lots of Southern families didn't leave the Democrat Party as they had have a history with the Party and so they just played along and at the local level they really didn't have to follow the National movement.

The KKK was spawned from Democrats
Yes, the south was still chock full of racist pliticians even after the civil rights act was passed. But the fact remains that the Democrats supported it and the GOP opposed it. So even though those politicians were still sorry human beings they still did at least one correct, courageous thing in their careers. And the Democrats paid the political p[rice for doing so too, the GOP now being dominant in the south.