In the late 50's and early 60's Lyndon B Johnson said extremely racist and disparaging things towards black people while championing the appointment of a black judge and as the leader of the civil rights act of 1964. Hell Widrow Wilson, another democrat, chamioned the re-segregation of the federal government in the early 1900's.
Your first comment was stronger before you brought up Woodrow Wilson. It is pretty well known that the Democratic Party was the party of slavery and racism before, during, and for some decades after the Civil War. It was in the lates sixties that there was a mass defection of bigots from the Democrats to Republicans, largely engineered by Nixon. He called it the "Southern strategy."
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