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On July 2nd, 1964, after signing the Civil Rights Act, President Lyndon Johnson is reported as saying, “I think we just delivered the South to the Republican Party for a long time to come”.
Johnson was indeed prescient. Not only has America swung right in the South, the effect has been equally noticeable in all of its rural areas. Comparing the 1964 Electoral Map below with that of 2016, it’s as if America was slashed, Freddie Kruger style, right across the bread-basket states. Our rural centers now bleed Republican Red.
But the shift, back in 1964, was far more dramatic than our current maps indicate. Prior to the Civil Rights Act, America’s party affiliations were reversed…
