Thanks for opening your eyes to these facts. It's long been a false response to claim the Republicans passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act. In reality, a greater percentage of Republicans opposed it than Democrats and in reality, it was a northern-southern split. Democrats' embrace and passage of it is what drove southern racists to emigrate to the GOP over the years, and now racists mostly populate the Republican Party. That doesn't mean all Republicans are racists. Some of my best friends are Republicans. But the party's policies give the racists cover.