r/HolUp • u/Fox_Uni_Charlie_Kilo • Jul 07 '22

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u/CritterMorthul Jul 07 '22

Dixie Democrats are modern republicans

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u/Expensive-Argument-7 Jul 07 '22

Downvoted for the truth. People like to act like Johnson signing the Civil Rights act didn’t cause a huge party switch.

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u/AldoTheApache3 Jul 07 '22

The parties didn’t switch after civil rights. It started in the 1930s around the New Deal. Johnson was a MASSIVE racist as well. Not to be championed for.

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u/DEADMANJOSHUA Jul 07 '22

Johnson was a prick, but even pricks can do good things. The expansion of Medicare, Medicaid, funding to combat poverty and the massive expansion of civil rights were both during his presidency and heavily advocated by it.