So Roosevelt was a right-leaning conservative? JFK? I mean, Republicans voted for civil rights AFTER both of these presidents, so if the parties switched that means that these two should be the equivalent of modern conservatives, no?
But oh wait, even in the 1930s the democrats were left-leaning socialists. So then, how is it that those left leaning, socialist, racist democrats of olden days of yore suddenly became right-wing, anti-socialist, racist republicans of today? And the small government, anti-racist, pro-equality republican party of the 1930s switched as well? Funny, seems their platforms are exactly the same to me. In the 50s and 60s Republicans voted in higher percentages than democrats to pass civil rights legislation. So when exactly did the switch happen? And who exactly switched?