Some further reflections

On July 2, 1964, just a few weeks after my seventeenth birthday, Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. According to his press secretary Bill Moyers, that evening, he remarked, "I think we just delivered the South to the Republican party for a long time to come." Telling the same story on another occasion, Moyers amended this to, "We may have lost the South for your lifetime--and mine." If the second version is true, LBJ got it exactly right. Bill Moyers died last year--and this week, the era of Republican domination south of the Mason Dixon line came to an astonishingly dramatic end. It's a turning point in American history that spectacularly vindicates the whole civil rights movement and the original vision of a nation of equal citizens.The turning point manifested itself in many ways, not least the extraordinary landslide Senate victories of Roy Moore in North Carolina and James Talarico in Texas, the latter accompanied by the gubernatorial victory of Gina Hinojosa.…

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