===Voting record analysis===
Additionally, below is are tables showing the votes of Southern Democrat senators and congressmen on the Civil Rights Act in addition to their political leaning. Many of those served for years both before and after the Act. Looking at the senators tabletables below for the House and Senate respectively, only one senator switched parties, and did doing so due to disenchantment toward the Democrats over racially-motivated [[Great Society]] programs and preference toward [[big government]]. The total of members of the U.S. House of Representatives follows a similar pattern. Of the 96 democrats who voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act, only 4 of them ever switched parties. The other 92 democrats remained democrats for the rest of their careers or their lives, or both. Moreover, where Democrats did have their terms in office come to an end, for any number of reasons, their successors were also largely Democrats.
It was not until the [[Republican Revolution of 1994]] that for the first time in modern American History the Republicans held a majority of Southern congressional seats, a full three decades after the passage of the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]].<ref>[https://newstalk1130.iheart.com/featured/common-sense-central/content/2018-05-01-the-myth-of-the-republican-democrat-switch/ The Myth of the Republican-Democrat 'Switch'], Dan O'Donnell</ref> As the South became less racist, it became more Republican.<ref name="Whitewashing the Democratic Party’s History"/>