Said in 1960 in response to racist signs held by Johnson's motorcade in Tennessee. Recounted by Bill Moyers, then a member of Johnson's staff, in Bill Moyers: "What a Real President Was Like; To Lyndon Johnson, the Great Society Meant Hope and Dignity," The Washington Post, Nov. 13, 1988. This popular meme can be taken out of context that this was LBJ's view, which it was not. Source: Wikiquote
The below embed will appear in some platforms as a link. Dixiecrats - the spiritual, and in many cases, literal descendants of former slave owners in the South - formed as a splinter of the Democratic Party in 1948 in protest of its Civil Rights platform; it was also the year President Harry Truman desegregated the Armed Forces by Executive Order, paving the way forward to the Civil Rights, Women's Rights, Hispanic/Latino and LGBT activists and struggles that form the matrix for our current society. These malcontents eventually made their way out of the donkey to the elephant of the Republican Party after the passage of the Voting Rights and Civil Rights Acts expressing similar disdain to expanding the enterprise of citizenship; Senators Phil Graham, Strom Thurmond and President Ronald Reagan being three notable former members. Add to them the ingredients of antebellum "states rights," the John Birch Society, Ayn Rand's self-centered philosophy; the general chicanery of Lee Atwater's "Southern Strategy" cloned by Karl Rove; dark money enabled by the oxymoronically named "Citizens United" ruling, and you have the modern conservative movement, now expressed in the so-called AstroTurf Tea Party. Full-steam ahead...to Dystopia.
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