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The truth was that it was Eisenhower who broke the Democrats hold on the South in 1952. Want to know was appealing to bigots? Democrat Adlai Stevenson, known to experience personal discomfort in the presence of Negroes. Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years,1954-1963, p. 360. Oh, yes, and Stevenson chose John Sparkman of Alabama, a Democrat segregationist, as his running mate. http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/152564/playing-defense/mark-r-levin
The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the event that finally moved the majority of Southern states to the Republican Party
Wrong again, Boring.
In 28, 52, 56, and 60, Republicans generally won Virginia, Florida, Texas, Kentucky and sometimes North Carolina or Louisiana. Did you notice that those years were before 1964?