You have to be trolling. People who post on college message boards are really not this ignorant. Are they?
Had the Southern Democrats not split with the (National) Northern Democrat Party over SLAVERY, then the Dems would have won.
But Northern Democrats did NOT support slavery...
And btw, the racist Dems who left the Dem Party and mainly joined the GOP over the Dem pro-Civil Rights positions in 1948 and again in 1964-65 ALL came from states SOUTH of Indiana and Illinois on this map. There were dozens of them that you may have heard of like Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms, John Tower, John Connally... And those are just the Senators...
"Rep. William C. Cramer, the first GOP rep in Florida, for instance, switched from the Democrats in 1949, won election in 1954, urged Ike to withdraw troops from Little Rock in 1957 and voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
4. Likewise, Rep. Edward Gurney, the second GOP representative in Florida, also abandoned the Democratic Party in the early 1960s, ran for Congress as a Republican in 1962 and won, and then voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
5. Rep. Dave Treen (R-LA) -- protege of legendary segregationist Leander Perez and a 1960 elector for the States Rights Party (a.k.a. "the Dixiecrats") -- switched to the GOP in 1962.
He lost a few early races, but then won his seat in 1973 and later became governor in 1980.
6. Rep. Iris Faircloth Blitch, a segregationist who represented Georgia in Congress as a Democrat from 1955-1962, left the party over civil rights in 1964 and campaigned for Barry Goldwater.
7. Rep. James D. Martin (R-AL), originally a Democrat, joined the GOP in 1962 & won a House race in 1964.
During the Selma protests, he denounced MLK Jr. as a "rabble-rouser who has put on the sheep's clothing of non-violence while he pits race against race, man against law."
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