Which party did JFK and LBJ belong to, Larry? Which party pushed and passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act? Those were passed by Northern Democrats (over the fierce objections of Southern Democrats) -- admittedly with support from (in those days, enlightened) Northern Republicans. Since then, those enlightened (Northern) Republicans have switched to the Democratic Party, while the South has turned Republican. This has been a conscious Republican strategy since Nixon. It was even foretold by LBJ when -- after signing the acts above -- he said "we have lost the South for at least a generation." Republicans' recent efforts to restrict voting -- which differentially restricts minority voting -- is evidence, as is the constant Republican harping on imagined fraud in welfare, which leads (and is intended to lead) poor whites to imagine that poor blacks are benefiting at their expense, all the while REAL fraud in defense spending and the financial sect is overlooked.