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Ted Budd on Civil Rights |
FactCheck by PublicSeminar.org (7/9/20): All things did indeed reverse more than half a century ago. The Democratic Party's ruling coalition, which had prevailed since the 1930s, shattered under the weight of the backlash against the Vietnam War and the passing of the Civil and Voting Rights Acts. At the same time, the Republican Party, seeing a power vacuum, traded white liberal conservatives (which was the majority of New England) and Black Republicans for southern segregationists.
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