Original sentence: Anti-civil rights members left the Democratic Party in droves, and Senator Strom Thurmond, the Dixiecrats' presidential candidate from 1948, joined the Republican Party.Most rejoined the Democrats over the next decade, but in the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act.These approaches are known as the Southern strategy
Edited sentence: (The Republicans sought to appeal based on non-race-based issues of faith, fiscal policy, pro-military, etc.) These approaches are known as the Southern strategy.After enormous Democrat Party opposition failed to stop it passing, Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act.In the 1960s, Democrats committed the longest filibuster in US history to block Republican Civil Rights legislation.Lyndon Johnson told fellow Democrats to embrace Civil Rights in order to gain the votes of black Americans; then the Democrats commenced the false claim that the Parties had "switched positions" on the matter of racial equality, Civil Rights, and Women's Rights, even though their personnel remained pretty much the same people who had vehemently opposed all of these.Members left the Democratic Party in droves, and Senator Strom Thurmond, the Dixiecrats' presidential candidate from 1948, joined the Republican Party.Most rejoined the Democrats over the next decade