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In the summer of 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. This was a major turning point in the political parties, as it caused an undeniable shift as to which party held the majority of black voters. However, despite Lyndon B. Johnson being a democrat, he did not have the widespread support of his party. Out of the democratic representatives of the House and Senate, 64, and 69 percent of the representatives voted in favor of the act, respectively. On the Republican side, it was 80, and 82 percent for the House and Senate support. This indicates that in 1964, it was the Republican party who championed Civil Rights, despite it being a Democrat who happened to be in a position where he could pass the act. This set the stage for a future pipeline of black voters for the Democratic party, and led to shifts in Republican ideology that would stand until modern day.
After the 1960s, Republicans sensed that they had lost a large amount of
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In July of 1974, less than two years after his inauguration as president, articles of impeachment were drawn up against Richard Nixon. The articles were in response to what came to be known as the Watergate scandal, where Nixon was implicated in ordering the act of breaking into the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C. and the administration subsequently attempting to cover-up their involvement, as well as their resistance in cooperating the investigation that followed the events. This scandal’s effect on the political parties, was the impact of Nixon’s association with the Republican Party. His shady conduct led to not only a mistrust in Republican’s that resonated with the general public, but also a party divided between the racist south, and moderate north. At this time, the Democrats were coming into their own as a unified liberal

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