If you go back to the Civil Rights acts, and it's not just a 64 act, there were actually five other civil rights acts before 1964 massively, overwhelmingly supported by the Republican party. It was Democrats that were holding up those. When the 64 act was going and before it went into law, the filibuster in the United States Senate was led by Democrat senators of the United States Senate. All those Democratic senators that filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights act, they remained Democrat senators. They didn't switch to become Republican senators. Robert Byrd was a lawyer for the Klan. (35:47–35:56)
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