that was when -- and over the next five years you saw all these southern democrats strom thurmond, jesse helm, all these guys flip and become republicans because the republican party was not in a big way taking a position on this. barry goldwater ran for president in '64, opposed the civil rights act. his argument was that this is the job of the states, not the federal government. the old states rights arguments. when ronald reagan ran for president in 1980 the first speech he gave as an official candidate of the party was in mississippi the site of the murder of three civil rights workers, sherwarmer, cheney and goodman and his speech to an all white audience was about states rights which was, you know, code back then for we never should have passed that dam civil rights act and go back to apartheid in the united states. it's been pretty much that way ever since and trump has pled down on it. i don't have an explanation beyond -- for this very, very clear racial divide that has existed beyond just shocking reality that at least half of white america and arguably a little more than that

they led the filibuster or the richard russell's and, the strom thurmond's. and then talmadge and all of those they're the ones that the southern democrats they after the civil rights act of 64 passed, they eventually flipped over and became republicans. so with regard to maryland, at the the civil rights act of 64, danny brewster, the democratic u.s. senator from maryland, co-sponsor, did the other u.s. senator, then was a republican. jaqueline bell senior, and he supported civil rights to some maryland can be proud that it's two u.s. senators in 64. both voted the civil rights act of 64. then joe tydings comes in and 65 and in 65 for the voting rights act of 65. again, maryland can be proud both of their u.s. senators danny brewster and joe tydings supported the voting rights act of 65. russia has. a question about civil rights for if my grandfather did not get involved that would that be all with the civil rights act of 64 be passed if he was not involved. well russia that that's a very good question what i can you is that never before in our nation's hist

so 1948, we had this kind of three way tie truman history and strom thurmond was also running and on the ticket, on a different ticket, the dixiecrat ticket. and so here we had three different polling organizations. so we went from literally digest in gallup. so now we have the different again journalists driving the story. so we had the crosley hearst newspapers doing polling in 1948. we had gallup kind of still in business, still kind of working with 100 independent newspapers and we had wolper and fortune magazine kind of doing polling at the time. so again, three different pollsters, all 1948, all polls had a lead of do we vote five points leading into two weeks out and all announced him as the victor. right. so gallup had 50,000 interviewers. roper one had 15,000 interviews, all were saying the same thing. everyone's consistent like we'll get if we do a poll aggregator. they're all saying the same thing. therefore, that's truth turns out right. and i'm relying on that. they're relying on the word that's all as long. so that's the fellow i was quoting earlier and his long politic

does anyone remember when trent lott had to step down because he said that maybe if strom thurmond's would all be better off? he had to step down. he understood he had to step down as majority leader. does anyone think that would happen today? we've moved the line ourselves. we're not the same people, myself included, who are able to stop many of the things trump did. in first term because the line has moved in terms of what judges think is unacceptable, what the public popular opinion will be. if we don't recognize that, we will think that we have more strength than we have to counter him in the way that we need to. and we can maybe get started on talking about the rule of law also, which we all like to say held the line. but mostly it failed. so we have to really take stock. we only have a very little bit of time to take stock of what we got wrong and where we went off the rails and try to create some guardrails for ourselves to understand that. and begin to reeducate ourselves and american institutions, faith institutions, all of whom have allowed their moral compass to be set by