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So if there may have been some Southerners upset that the Civil Rights Act passed while blaming Democrats along the way, they would not have chosen as their home the Republican Party, who were the Act's greatest supporters.  Of the 171 Republicans in the House in 1964, 136 of them voted for it.<ref>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/88-1964/h182 H.R. 7152. CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964. ADOPTION OF A RESOLUTION (H. RES. 789) PROVIDING FOR HOUSE APPROVAL OF THE BILL AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE.]</ref> Of the 33 Republicans in the Senate, 27 of them voted for it.<ref>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/88-1964/s409 HR. 7152. PASSAGE.]</ref>  This is 79% of House Republicans, and 82% of Senate Republicans.

So if there may have been some Southerners upset that the Civil Rights Act passed while blaming Democrats along the way, they would not have chosen as their home the Republican Party, who were the Act's greatest supporters.  Of the 171 Republicans in the House in 1964, 136 of them voted for it.<ref>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/88-1964/h182 H.R. 7152. CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964. ADOPTION OF A RESOLUTION (H. RES. 789) PROVIDING FOR HOUSE APPROVAL OF THE BILL AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE.]</ref> Of the 33 Republicans in the Senate, 27 of them voted for it.<ref>[https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/88-1964/s409 HR. 7152. PASSAGE.]</ref>  This is 79% of House Republicans, and 82% of Senate Republicans.

On the Democrat side, 153 of 244 House and 46 of 67 Senate members voted yes.  That is 63% of Democrat house members and 69% of Democrat Senate members.  These numbers become even more bleak for the "party myth" idea when you compare the yes and no votes from Northern and Southern democrats.  Virtually every Southern Democrat voted against the Civil Rights Act, meaning that Southern voters had no reason to punish them.  Additionally, while the bill was on the Senate floor it was the subject of filibustering from Southern Democrats for 57 days,<ref>[https://www.aei.org/articles/how-the-south-came-to-rise-again-the-civil-rights-act-of-1964/ How the South Came to Rise Again: The Civil Rights Act of 1964]</ref> the longest filibuster in U.S. history.

On the Democrat side, 153 of 244 House and 46 of 67 Senate members voted yes.  That is 63% of Democrat house members and 69% of Democrat Senate members.  These numbers become even more bleak for the "party myth" idea when you compare the yes and no votes from Northern and Southern democrats.  Virtually every Southern Democrat voted against the Civil Rights Act, meaning that Southern voters had no reason to punish them.  Additionally, while the bill was on the Senate floor it was the subject of filibustering from Southern Democrats for 57 days,<ref>[https://www.aei.org/articles/how-the-south-came-to-rise-again-the-civil-rights-act-of-1964/ How the South Came to Rise Again: The Civil Rights Act of 1964]</ref> the longest filibuster in U.S. history.  It was a Northern Republican, [[Everett Dirksen]], who broke the filibuster.

==Southern strategy==

==Southern strategy==