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PragerU: Why Did The Democratic South Become Republican?

Aaron Bandler

The Left loves to smear the Right with cries of racism, but when the Right points out that it’s the Democrats who are the party of slavery, segregation and Jim Crow, the Left always reverts to the claim that both parties “switched” following the passage of the Civil Rights Act, and uses the fact that the South is now consistently won by Republicans somehow as “proof.”

The South is now a Republican voting bloc — but not because of the mythical party switch.

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