It was more a North-South divide than a party divide.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964#By_par...
(Signed into law by a Democrat, incidentally)
> that it was Democrats who were the anti-abolitionist party?
And France had a Napoleon (III) at the helm, but that hardly means a thing today.
It was more a North-South divide than a party divide.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964#By_par...
(Signed into law by a Democrat, incidentally)
> that it was Democrats who were the anti-abolitionist party?
And France had a Napoleon (III) at the helm, but that hardly means a thing today.