Can anyone explain President Johnson's statement "With this Pen I have lost the Southern vote for a 100 years"

Question

What was it about the Civil Rights Bill that would cause Southern Democrats to become Republicans?

One day in history and one President's signature and America changed to Pro Corporate Greed Politics

What I don't understand is, does the Southern Culture (Red States) hate Black Americans more than they love America? Or is it the opposite They hate America more than they hate Black American Citizens.

The end result is the demise of a once great Nation

Answer 1

Racism.

Racism is the reason that Southerners would likely not vote for Johnson or other Democrats.

Johnson had done something truly great for America and understood how bitterly opposed ignorant racists would be to it.

Answer 2

Before the Civil Rights era, there were two Democratic Parties, one for the South and one for the rest of the party. The Southern Democrats were sometimes called the Dixiecrats, in fact after WWII there was an attempt to break away the South and form a new Dixiecrat party.

Southerners were socially conservative in this era but couldn't bring themselves to vote for the party of Abraham Lincoln. So they voted Democratic but the candidates they elected were not like the Democrats of the rest of the country. They believed in states' rights, the right to segregate, 'separate but equal', etc. And this principle goes all the way back to our revolution, when it was the more liberal anti-federalists who wanted more states' rights and the more conservative federalists who wanted a stronger federal government.

George Wallace, governor of Georgia, developed a strategy in his failed third-party presidential campaign in 1968 to pull the South away from the Democratic Party. He said there wasn't a nickle's worth of difference between the Democrats and the Republicans, and the country needed a new party that stressed states' rights. He failed but he got quite a few votes. He even won several states!

After that, under president Nixon, the Republicans developed a 'Southern Strategy' to co-opt the Southern Democrats into the GOP, and the GOP became the party of States' Rights, promising a smaller, cheaper, less intrusive federal government. All the southern Democrats in Congress changed parties, and since many of them had been in office for decades, they became the leaders of the new Republican Party.

But there are really two Republican Parties today. One is, as you put it, the party of Corporate Greed, trying to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of the few. The other is the paty of 'values', the Christian, pro-family party. But the REAL agenda of the GOP is money-grubbing. Jesus himself said you can't serve two masters and the REAL God of the Republicans is Mammon. I think Christians today are just beginning to realize they made a classic faustian bargain, a deal with the devil, and that when it comes to values the Republicans talk the talk but don't walk the walk.

The intervention of the conservative Supreme Court in the 2000 election in Florida shows how the Republicans -really- feel about states' rights. 8^) It's all a matter of whose ox was gored (no pun intended).

Answer 3

Another variation of this quote is, "We have lost the South for a generation."

The 1964 Civil Rights Act was bitterly opposed by Southern Senators, Democrats and Republicans alike. The South had traditionally been a Democratic stronghold, dating all the way back to Andrew Jackson's rural roots and even back to Thomas Jefferson's support of Southern farmers over Northern industry. The Civil Rights Act was seen as Northern liberalism infringing upon "states' rights" that the Southern states used to deny black Americans their constitutional rights. This resulted in many Southern Democrats switching alliances.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

The low-wage workers of the south could view themselves high above people of color before then. They had the privilege of access to businesses, restaurants, seating, schools, etc. that were denied to those others.

They became furious that this division and hierarchy was being dismantled. Some still are.

Republicans started talking 'in code' to these people, with long rambling speeches about "traditional values" and "reverse discrimination" that gave hope of turning back the clock. And they have pretty much dismantled quotas and other measurements of equal opportunity.

Answer 6

At the time he said that, in the 1960s, most southerners were opposed to the idea of treating African-Americans like human beings....let alone treating them with equality.

That's what he meant.

All this neo-con nonsense followed, because some stupid, embittered rednecks just had to have someone to feel superior to.