@GhostOnTheHalfShell @bmacDonald94 That's quite right - I'm not sure when Malcolm X said/wrote the above, but he died in 1965. The Republican party's "Southern Strategy" of deliberately being racist to capture the southern states started for real in the 1964 election, after the passage of the Civil Rights Act (under a Democratic president, but support / opposition was mainly split not along party lines but between former Union and Confederate states).