Next time someone tells you GOP was party of civil rights in 1960s, show them this graph

Were Republicans really the party of civil rights in the 1960s?  (The Guardian, 8/28/2013)

That's why Strom Thurmond left the Democratic party soon after the Civil Right Act passed. He recognized that of the two parties, it was the Republican party that was more hospitable to his message. The Republican candidate for president in 1964, Barry Goldwater, was one of the few non-Confederate state senators to vote against the bill. He carried his home state of Arizona and swept the deep southern states – a first for a Republican ever.

Source:  Wikipedia

Related reading:
The Conservative Fantasy History of Civil Rights.  (New York, 5/22/2012)
How the GOP became the “White Man’s Party”.  (Salon, 12/22/2013)

Bonus round:
The campaign:  Goldwater by Robert H. Rovere.  (The New Yorker, `10/3/1964)

From which the following excerpt is taken.  (Highlight added.)

Photo credit:  Wikipedia