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Originally Posted by kane
The reason for the black vote is civil rights. Blacks slowly started switching over to the democratic party, but then Johnson pushed through the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and that was big thing that changed black voters over to democrats. The year after the Civil Rights Act Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act.
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Civil Rights Act was supported far more by Republicans than Democrats
Vote totals
Totals are in "Yea?Nay" format:
The original House version: 290?130 (69?31%).
Cloture in the Senate: 71?29 (71?29%).
The Senate version: 73?27 (73?27%).
The Senate version, as voted on by the House: 289?126 (70?30%).
By party
The original House version:[16]
Democratic Party: 152?96 (61?39%)
Republican Party: 138?34 (80?20%)
Cloture in the Senate:[17]
Democratic Party: 44?23 (66?34%)
Republican Party: 27?6 (82?18%)
The Senate version:[16]
Democratic Party: 46?21 (69?31%)
Republican Party: 27?6 (82?18%)
The Senate version, voted on by the House:[16]
Democratic Party: 153?91 (63?37%)
Republican Party: 136?35 (80?20%)
By party and region
Note: "Southern", as used in this section, refers to members of Congress from the eleven states that made up the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. "Northern" refers to members from the other 39 states, regardless of the geographic location of those states.
The original House version:
Southern Democrats: 7?87 (7?93%)
Southern Republicans: 0?10 (0?100%)
Northern Democrats: 145?9 (94?6%)
Northern Republicans: 138?24 (85?15%)
The Senate version:
Southern Democrats: 1?20 (5?95%)
Southern Republicans: 0?1 (0?100%)
Northern Democrats: 45?1 (98?2%)
Northern Republicans: 27?5 (84?16%)