No, you got the LBJ quote wrong Ebbie. That quote comes from Bill Moyers, a Southern Democrat at the time who worked for LBJ. You can read the whole story here. And please, please read it Ebbie, because you really don't seem to know your history, if your ignorant statements like this are anything to go by:

"And according to an article I read recently, the main reason they were able to get so strong was that they opened their arms to the reactionary elements. It's scary to imagine hte corollary for what the Democrats might do- or feel compelled to do."

Statements like that Ebbie, show you are more comfortable with, and possibly even side with the Clintonian "New Democrat" southern strategy that appeals so strongly to the bad old segregationist Southerners who once were Democrats and are now Bush Republicans.

To set the record straight, here is the Bill Moyer's quote, with some context:

"Finally, the impact of the 1964 act on the American political scene was profound. Bill Moyers, a former aide to LBJ, recalled, in a statement during a 1990 symposium at the Johnson Library:

The night that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, I found him in the bedroom, exceedingly depressed. The headline of the bulldog edition of the Washington Post said, "Johnson Signs Civil Rights Act." The airwaves were full of discussions about how unprecedented this was and historic, and yet he was depressed. I asked him why.

He said, "I think we've just delivered the South to the Republican Party for the rest of my life, and yours."

Thank god Bill Moyers eventually came to his senses. LBJ never did, and did in the same mold he was born into as a Southern Democrat conservative.

Is that where you want the Democratic party to go Ebbie, just to make you feel safe from the progressive left? To join ranks once and for all with today's Republican South? You go girl. But I won't be following you.

No surprise to me that a lot of you diehard Kerry supporters are shaking in your boots at the thought of the progressives finally waking up and roaring back, and thinking of heading further right to join with your much more natural allies, the Republican party.

That, in the end, is what Republicrats always do when they vote for Kerry and remain 'Democrats' in name only...