Opinion of this 1964 Johnson campaign ad?

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Didn't most of the guys that wore the sheets vote for Democrats most of their life?  Almost religiously?

In 1944, there was a revolt against Johnson in Texas. After that, Stevenson and Carter were the only Democrats to win the whole Deep South. The Democratic Party had already moved too far to the left for the KKK at that point.

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Democratic southerners stopped being racist in 1944?  Why do you think it took them so long after this date to become Republicans?

I didn't say that. I said that the national party started becoming unpalatable to Southerners after said date.

The reason it took so long for the South to vote Republican was long-term Civil War hostility; Southern Republicans were still seen as scalawags. It took a long time for that perception to go away, and the Democrats are still very strong in the Deep South (minus Georgia).

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Hubert Humphrey was a key player in getting civil rights onto the Democratic party platform, and he made that speech in 1944.

This marked the time when southerners began to leave the Democratic party and Minnesotans started leaving the Republican party. 

Only then? I thought Farmer-Labor had been around for many years by that time.

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I've noticed Pawlenty doesn't take after earlier Republicans much. But the DFL is the best major party in the nation.

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The DFL only has to pick up a few seats and we will have a veto-proof majority in both the house and senate, making Pawlenty a lame-duck.