>You are absolutely right on this.
>LBJ gets the credit (or blame) for its passage, but his real contribution was his strong-arming of his southern democrat allies into supporting the bill that came primarily from Repubs acting in the tradition of Republican abolitionism dating back to the early 1800's.
>LBJ famously predicted that his actions assured that the south would be repub for a decade.
>Talk about underestimation!

Pretty sure he said "a generation," not "a decade."

Tamar