Im a black working class democrat thinking of voting GOP in 2016. But why didn't the GOP support the civil rights bill? They all hated it!?

They did it was the Democrats that voted against it. This includes Senator Johnson before he became
Vice President and then President.

False. It was the Democratic Party that opposed it. Republicans generally favored it. I'm a Republican and I would have opposed it if I was around at the time, since it violates employers' rights.

I am an African American and I can't imagine why you would want to vote GOP. Nevertheless, when the Republican Party had liberals and actual moderates in its ranks, they supported civil rights for African Americans.

Now, however, the Republican Party has driven out its liberals and consists of mostly conservatives and ultra-conservatives. Some of them are talking about repealing the civil rights acts.

Edit: Just to address some of the responses. Southern white Democrats opposed the civil rights acts of the 1960s. Southern whites now support the Republican Party. They were conservative then and they are conservative now.

Some of these ultra-conservative Republicans are even talking about repealing the civil rights acts. That is how much they resent the fact, even after all these years, that African Americans obtained equal rights under the law.

Conservatives on the Supreme Court have already gutted the Voting Rights Act so who knows where this conservative attack on African American rights may take us.

In 1964, Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote,

"The Republican Party geared its appeal and program to RACISM, REACTION, and EXTREMISM.."

He was describing the 1964 Republican National Convention. He also described the Republican convention as:

“[T]he frenzied wedding at the Cow Palace of the KKK with the radical right.”

He accurately described the direction that the Republican Party was taking because it only got worse after the 1960s.

Thereafter, the Republican Party instituted its Southern Strategy in a successful attempt to woo the racists who were upset by the civil rights legislation.

Read Martin Luther King, Jr.'s entire statement regarding the Republicans at the link below.

dont vote gop

it will come to bite your ***

If you check back, you will see that Democrats opposed the Civil Rights Act, and Republicans voted for it.

If you're referring to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a higher percentage of Republicans in the House and Senate voted for it than Democrats.

IDK, but if Carson gets the nomination you could leave it all to an it-is-what-it-is thing.

You don't want Hillary to win, do you?!?!

:-p

Learn your History the Democrats were divided on Civil Rights. The south had a split in the party and ran candidates under the Dixiecrat platform in the 50 and sixties. The civil rights bill would not have past with out bipartisan support there were people on both sides that supported it and opposed it. I am glad it passed. I'm an independent voter who speaks the truth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace_presidential_campaign,_1968

George Wallace ran two times before as a democrat. The point I'm making is that after the civil rights act their was a realignment of political parties. Both parties played a role in Civil rights

Here is the voting record of the civil rights act 1964

Note: "Southern", as used in this section, refers to members of Congress from the eleven states that made up the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. "Northern" refers to members from the other 39 states, regardless of the geographic location of those states.

The original House version:
Southern Democrats: 7–87 (7–93%)
Southern Republicans: 0–10 (0–100%)
Northern Democrats: 145–9 (94–6%)
Northern Republicans: 138–24 (85–15%)

The Senate version:
Southern Democrats: 1–20 (5–95%) (only Ralph Yarborough of Texas voted in favor)
Southern Republicans: 0–1 (0–100%) (John Tower of Texas)
Northern Democrats: 45–1 (98–2%) (only Robert Byrd of West Virginia voted against)
Northern Republicans: 27–5 (84–16%)

The GOP wrote the Civil Acts Act. The Democrats defeated it in Congress in the longest filibuster in US history. Strom Thurmond actually urinated in a bucket so that he could maintain the filibuster and prevent passage of the act. Then, after the act was defeated in Congress, the Democrats re-introduced the bill, passed it, and took credit for it. And the African-American community has been voting Democrat ever since, just like leading Democrats at the time predicted.

What civil rights bills? The ones in the sixties?
You do know that MLK was a Republican and the Southern Democrats opposed civil rights?