[bikersfan]

This is a very simplistic view. The reality is that te GOP championed civil rights since the 60's. The 1860's:

You're mostly right as far as you go except that you leave out the fact that those democrats who fought against black equality are the very same people who deserted the dems (first for their own third parties then for the republicans) when the mainstream of the democratic party got behing the civil rights movement