Republican inroads into the South may be what prompted Lyndon Johnson to throw off 100 years of a racist tradition which was weakening and had been the driving force binding Southern Democrats together. As part of this, the Democrats, knowing they would never win another election if they continued with overt racism and its derived policies, changed strategies by adopting a more subtle and subversive form of racism against blacks and manipulating them into voting Democrat (as admitted by LBJ himself, who was recorded as saying "I'll have those n*****s voting Democratic for the next 200 years")<ref>Ronald Kessler, | Republican inroads into the South may be what prompted Lyndon Johnson to throw off 100 years of a racist tradition which was weakening and had been the driving force binding Southern Democrats together. As part of this, the Democrats, knowing they would never win another election if they continued with overt racism and its derived policies, changed strategies by adopting a more subtle and subversive form of racism against blacks and manipulating them into voting Democrat (as admitted by LBJ himself, who was recorded as saying "I'll have those n*****s voting Democratic for the next 200 years")<ref>Ronald Kessler, |