Reply #13: Those stats are interesting, WI DEM.. [View All]

[Demoiselle]

I'd forgotten how lopsided the Dems' edge was in Congress in those days.
But it's important to remember that a big slice of that margin was Southern Democrats...many much more like today's Republicans. On the other hand, they were also more likely to be populists, concerned for the needs of poor Americans, or at least poor WHITE Americans, so they were probably friendlier to "social" legislation.
So I can't quite credit a bigger majority for all of Lyndon Johnson's considerable success. He was pretty astonishing. What a terrible tragedy that he was so wrong about Viet Nam.