AnonymityX1000
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Thanks for the better examples, you are solidifying my point every post. lolObviously, you can be a casual racist and still support civil rights. I mean, I don't agree with trans/gay lifestyle but I'm still 100% towards anti-discrimination. Or look at all the rich dems who don't give to charity but still support wealth distribution.
Now, I doubt LBJ had some amazingly firm ideology on race. But the Democrats being the pro-Civil Rights party was cemented in by that point and LBJ didn't suddenly flip on that overnight.
And I already pointed out to you that the LBJ vs. Wallace civil rights divide had been ongoing in the Democratic party for 100 years at that point. It wasn't a quick shift for political expediency. The less racist dems had been at odds with the more racist dems since before either LBJ or Wallace was even born.
If you want to talk about shifting for political expediency, there are much better examples (like what happened with gay marriage during Obama's term, or how the dems abandoned unions and government regulation in the 80s/90s, or how republicans swing between libertarian ideologues and populists). You just picked a bad historical example.