Thanks for Making the Connection Explicit, Newt…

And of course, the push for civil rights legislation was an utter failure, and produced no positive consequences of note for Americanswhite southern men.

But former Republican House speaker Newt Gingrich said Obama and the Democrats will regret their decision to push for comprehensive reform. Calling the bill “the most radical social experiment . . . in modern times,” Gingrich said: “They will have destroyed their party much as Lyndon Johnson shattered the Democratic Party for 40 years” with the enactment of civil rights legislation in the 1960s.