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[–] buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The flip came with Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act and then Goldwater and Nixon capitalizing on racists' anger about it with the Southern Strategy.