Civil Rights Act of 1964. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/88-1964/h182 More Democrats than Republicans voted Yea. The thing to consider, though, is that the "Southern Bloc" of Southern Democrats still hadn't turned to the liberal side that the North had by then. Let's also note that LBJ wanted this bill to be passed and knew that doing so would likely alienate the Southern white Democrats but, and I quote "but those sorts of states may be lost anyway", which I interpret to mean that sooner or later that part of the country would become disillusioned with the liberal ideas of the Democrat party and switch to Republican at one point or another, thereby filling the Republican party with more conservative people and even further altering the South's voting tendency which would solidify into Republican by the 1990s.
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You shut your mouth when you're talking to me!
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