Why did the Democrat Party filibuster civil rights legislation?
"[John F. ] Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Act while he was a senator, as did Democrat Sen. Al Gore Sr. And after he became President, Kennedy was opposed to the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King that was organized by A. Phillip Randolph, who was a black Republican. President Kennedy, through his brother Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI on suspicion of being a Communist in order to undermine Dr. King." http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?i...
What if the Dixiecrats stayed split from the Democrat party?
Are you suggesting the Dixiecrats went back to the Democratic party? Most of them became Republicans.EDIT: Okay, details were added after I posted my original answer. The term “Dixiecrats” has come to refer to Southern, segregationist Democrats who were once members of the Democratic party. There was a very brief time in the 1940s when the Dixiecrats tried starting a 3rd party, but they came to their senses rather quickly and realized that would never give them any power. They returned to the Democratic party until LBJ got the Civil Rights bill through Congress and Richard Nixon wooed many of the Southern racists to join the Republican party.As to the question of what would have happened if they had not rejoined the Democrats, it is probable that Nixon would have fucked up the country starting in 1960 instead of starting in 1968. We probably would have gone to nuclear war with Russia over the cuban missles, and few of us would be alive today.
The Democratic party founded the Ku Klux Klan?
It seems the distinction needs to be made. The term "conservative" means to conserve. A Democratic Conservative conserves the slave holding values of the party. A Republican Conservative conserves the anti-slavery and constitutional values of the party. What a Conservative believes isn't universal.
How did Democrats produce FDR and the Dixiecrats?
There was no party switching. Most Dixiecrats went back to the Democratic Party. Even during the 60's when civil rights was the main issue, the people fighting FOR segregation were democrats. More republicans voted for the civil rights act. The problem is our education system and our media. They have allowed this LIE about republicans to continue, and, lets be honest......,most Americans are stupid.
When did the Republicans become conservative and the Democrats liberals?
A lot of it had to do with the 1948 Democratic Nomination for POTUS. Southern Democrates were angered over Harry S. Truman's polices. When Truman issued an Executive Order racially integrating the armed forces, the Southern Democrates known as Dixiecrats united to run in opposition to Truman. Within years, old line Democrats left the party. By the time JFK won the nomination in 1960, the political parties were in a major shift.
Did the majority of Dixiecrats become Republicans after the passage of the Civil Rights Act?
The Dixiecrats' drift out of the Democratic party started as early as the 1930, but most bolted starting in the 1960s, when Nixon's GOP came up with and pursued the Southern Strategy in order to court white southern voters who were growing increasingly disaffected with the Democratic party.The Democrats, at least northern Democrats, had adopted a platform during the New Deal that included the pursuit of civil rights for blacks. The first cracks appeared as early as the 1940s, when South Carolina senator Strom Thurmond bolted from the Democrats and ran as an independent in the 1948 presidential race. The rift widened during the 1960s when the US Department of Justice under John F. Kennedy took a more assertive stance to enforce civil rights laws and court decrees re desegregation. It grew unbridgeable with LBJ's pursuit and implementation of the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act - as he is supposed to have said upon signing the Civil Rights Act, anticipating white Southern backlash: "We have lost the South for a generation".Nixon saw all those disaffected white southerners and began to adopt the southern political speech code, particularly the advocacy of "states rights" (Southern for "let us handle our negroes how we like without the feds breathing down our necks") and sending all the dog whistle wink-wink, nudge-nudge signals to southern racists, letting them know that the GOP from here on out would be a hospitable home for their views.The nadir for the GOP's courting of Dixiecrats was probably Ronald Reagan launching his 1980 presidential campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi. What claim to fame did such a backwater, with a population of less than 5000 at the time, have that might tempt Reagan, who was not from Mississippi or even the south, to announce his presidential campaign there? Its only distinction is the notoriety of being the Site of the Murder of 3 Young Civil Rights Volunteers by KKK members during the the struggle for civil rights and desegregation.A signal doesn't clearer than that, and it sealed the deal for racist Dixecrats to make that switch from the Democratic party to the GOP.