This is 1960. A lot of people don't realize it, but 28% of the African American vote in 1960 went to Richard Nixon. Interesting. And The big transition did not take place until 1964, when the Civil Rights act of 64 and then the Voting Rights act of 65, those things drove Strom Thurmond and others out of the Democratic Party, and they took over the Republican Party that had been basically African Americans. And so when people tell me about my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, Abraham Lincoln this and Abraham Lincoln that. He did so much for African Americans. (02:00–02:28)
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Asserts that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 led to a political shift where Strom Thurmond and others left the Democratic Party, impacting the Republican Party's demographic.
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