Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170818:02:30:00
And behaviors that we have spent 250 years overcoming. >> you worked for a southern president who signed the civil rights act and knew politically when he was doing it and said privately to you, no doubt, what this would cost him. >> he said that evening, i think we've just delivered the south to the republican party for my lifetime and yours. what he meant by that is that for 100 years, the democrats had been the protector of slavery, the defender of slavery and of white power. now with the vote coming, the democrats would move away from that, and the republicans would fill the gap. there wou...