I know the old Southern Democrats are now Republican

[edhopper]

But still, the majority of Republicans and Democrats not from the South voted for the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
But now the GOP is in lock step with their Southern racist wing. There are no more Republicans who support the rights of minorities,
The Southern Democrats did not just become Republican, they became the whole Party, heart and soul, throughout the entire country.

[elleng]

1. As LBJ suggested.

[lapfog_1]

2. the "country club" republicans in the northeast and midwest

have never supported minority rights.

They never worried about integration of the schools because their kids went to private schools, they never worried about equal pay because they had a token minority in their corporate executive staff... but always someone who "knew their place", so long as minorities stayed to "their part of town" they never worried or even thought about them at all.

The only part of the old GOP that cared about minorities were, in fact, some of the descendants of slaves who held Abraham Lincoln in high regard.

[edhopper]

3. But still most of them

voted for Civil Rights.

[lapfog_1]

4. Not where I grew up

in very solid country club republican Johnson County Kansas.

[edhopper]

6. This is the vote in the House

Democratic Party: 152–96 (61–39%)
Republican Party: 138–34 (80–20%)

[PersianStar]

5. Both have morphed over time

Post Civil War, socially liberal ruling Republicans imposed a decade of draconian military occupation/rule over the defeated South. Thereafter, the South was solidly Democrat until around the mid-20th century.

The old Southern Democrats were more socially conservative and less fiscally conservative than current Republicans.

[edhopper]

7. That's in the South

why did the whole GOP follow the racist South.

[PersianStar]

8. Good question

Why did the Republican party morph from socially liberal to socially conservative?

A Republican may have to answer that.

[misanthrope]

10. It's no secret

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The GOP implemented the Southern Strategy after 1964 in order to divide the Democratic Party further and rob them of power. As the Southern influence grew in the GOP through the following decades, it fell under the sway of a Southern culture marked by its roots as a feudal society, where democracy is for the privileged and many were resigned to a life of servitude, a society that valued respect for tradition and caste systems more than egalitarianism.

The society bred strong suspicions of outsiders. That meshed with the more libertarian-minded western regions. That is what edged out Rockefeller Republicans in favor of Christian nationalists and firebrands.

[edhopper]

11. It's a shame

so many Americans follow that ideology.

[frogmarch]

9. Republicans today are Dixiecrats - among other deplorable things

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixiecrat#:~:text=The%20States'%20Rights%20Democratic%20Party,After%20President%20Harry%20S

The States' Rights Democratic Party (usually called the Dixiecrats) was a short-lived segregationist political party in the United States, active primarily in the South. It arose due to a Southern regional split in opposition to the Democratic Party. After President Harry S. Truman, a member of the Democratic Party, ordered integration of the military in 1948 and other actions to address civil rights of African Americans, many Southern conservative white politicians who objected to this course organized themselves as a breakaway faction. The Dixiecrats were determined to protect Southern states' rights to maintain racial segregation.