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The [[War on Poverty]] was a set of programs instituted by President Lyndon Johnson and its associated legislation passed by [[Congress]] in an effort to supposedly combat [[poverty]].  Johnson said,  

The [[War on Poverty]] was a set of programs instituted by President Lyndon Johnson and its associated legislation passed by [[Congress]] in an effort to supposedly combat [[poverty]].  Johnson said,  

{{Cquote|"I'll have them n*gg*rs voting Democratic for two hundred years."<ref>Said to two governors regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1964, according to then-''Air Force One'' steward Robert MacMillan as quoted in [http://books.google.com/books?id=lJz-yIZNE2sC ''Inside the White House''] (1996), by Ronald Kessler, New York: Simon and Schuster, p. 33.</ref>}}  

<center>{{Cquote|"I'll have them n*gg*rs voting Democratic for two hundred years."<ref>Said to two governors regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1964, according to then-''Air Force One'' steward Robert MacMillan as quoted in [http://books.google.com/books?id=lJz-yIZNE2sC ''Inside the White House''] (1996), by Ronald Kessler, New York: Simon and Schuster, p. 33.</ref>}}</center>

[[Historian]] Leah Wright Rigueur<ref>Leah Wright Rigueur Wiki-Bio: Married Life, Husband, Children, Net Worth And Family!, https://thecelebscloset.com/leah-wright-rigueur-wiki-bio-married-net-worth/, Michael Rogers, September 30, 2018</ref> first noted that black [[Republicans]] criticized the "plantation politics" of the Democrat Party in 1964.<ref name=WaPo20190108 />  The metaphor of the Democrat Party as a slave plantation was mentioned by [[Richard Nixon]] in a 1968 interview with ''Jet'' magazine.<ref name=Beast20190215>The Forgotten History of Black Republicans, https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-forgotten-history-of-black-republicans, Leah Wright Rigueur | ''The Daily Beast'', February 12, 2015</ref>

[[Historian]] Leah Wright Rigueur<ref>Leah Wright Rigueur Wiki-Bio: Married Life, Husband, Children, Net Worth And Family!, https://thecelebscloset.com/leah-wright-rigueur-wiki-bio-married-net-worth/, Michael Rogers, September 30, 2018</ref> first noted that black [[Republicans]] criticized the "plantation politics" of the Democrat Party in 1964.<ref name=WaPo20190108 />  The metaphor of the Democrat Party as a slave plantation was mentioned by [[Richard Nixon]] in a 1968 interview with ''Jet'' magazine.<ref name=Beast20190215>The Forgotten History of Black Republicans, https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-forgotten-history-of-black-republicans, Leah Wright Rigueur | ''The Daily Beast'', February 12, 2015</ref>

The concept of a ''Democratic Plantation'' was later spread throughout the printed media in the 1970s and 1980s, eventually gaining mainstream attention in the 1990s.  The idea of the ''Democratic Plantation'' was further documented by ''The Washington Post'' as recent as January 2019.<ref name=WaPo20190108 />

The concept of a ''Democratic Plantation'' was later spread throughout the printed media in the 1970s and 1980s, eventually gaining mainstream attention in the 1990s.  The idea of the ''Democratic Plantation'' was further documented by ''The Washington Post'' as recent as January 2019.<ref name=WaPo20190108 />