About that speech

You know the one.

“There's not enough troops in the Army to force the southern people to break down segregation and admit the Nigra [Sic] race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches.”

That’s a quote from dipshit bigot Strom Thurmond, civil rights opponent and South Carolina Senator from 1954-2003. Yeah. He was also a Democrat, specifically a Dixiecrat. To be clear, it used to be that Democrats and Republicans were spread more evenly across the country. It was understood that both Southern Democrats and Southern Republicans were motivated by white supremacy more than their Northern counterparts. Then, President Lyndon Johnson—a Democrat—signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, offhandedly remarking to journalist Bill Moyers later that day, “Well, I think we may have lost the south for your lifetime – and mine.”

Do you remember when Cory Booker (left) was dating Rosario Dawson? That was weird, right? We’ll get into the dating life of Strom (right) at the end.

LBJ was more right than he could’ve possibly imagined. Southern Democrats left in droves, joining the Republican Party and we’ve been pretending race has nothing to do with our politics ever since.