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Well, I think there has always been a migration of belief in political thought. Some traditionally conservative ideas were once held by Democrats and some traditionally liberal ideas were once held by Republicans. However, the switch you are probably thinking of started with efforts towards desegregation. The Democratic party had a faction called the Dixiecrats (circa 1948), southern democrats who were pro-segregation, that attempted to preserve “states rights” (can anybody hear echoes of the civil war here?) by putting obstacles up to federal rulings on desegregation, saying that states should be allowed to decide. A party unit initiative leading into the 1952 Democratic National Convention along with the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 took some of the wind out of their sails but it would only be another decade or so before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 would push those Southern Democrats to essentially abandon the Democratic Party and shift their allegiance to the Republican Party. Lyndon Johnson was President though it was JFK’s landmark bill in the works before he was assassinated.Look at the voting tally’s for the Civil Rights Act to give you some perspective (taken from Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Wikipedia).Vote totalsTotals are in "Yea–Nay" format:The original House version: 290–130 (69–31%).Cloture in the Senate: 71–29 (71–29%).The Senate version: 73–27 (73–27%).The Senate version, as voted on by the House: 289–126 (70–30%).By partyThe original House version:Democratic Party: 152–96 (61–39%)Republican Party: 138–34 (80–20%)Cloture in the Senate:Democratic Party: 44–23 (66–34%)Republican Party: 27–6 (82–18%)The Senate version:Democratic Party: 46–21 (69–31%)Republican Party: 27–6 (82–18%)The Senate version, voted on by the House:Democratic Party: 153–91 (63–37%)Republican Party: 136–35 (80–20%)By party and regionNote: "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%)It would difficult to say this was a hard shift. There were still people that stayed in the Republican Party that had the same ideology before as after the shift and there were people in the Democratic Party that had the same ideology after the shift. But the ideological lines had been drawn around race in this country and, with all do respect to the Republicans, they absorbed most of the racists because of it.

The GND: Text - H.Res.109 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal.The basic question for the Senate was more so, were there 60 votes to begin debate. Given that 53 R and 2 D and 1 I voted nay, it was not possible for the aye to reach anything higher than 44. No reason to vote anything but present, especially if you feel the vote was called simply to get Senators on record if they supported the ideas in the GND or not. That’s more politics than the basics of the vote though.Question: On the Cloture Motion (Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to S.J. Res. 8 )Required For Majority: 3/5Vote Result: Cloture Motion RejectedHistory of S.J.Res.8 — 116th Congress (2019-2020)Feb 13 Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time. (text: CR S1327-1328)Feb 14 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 27.Feb 14 Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate. (CR S1882)Mar 14 Cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the measure presented in Senate.Mar 26 Motion to proceed to measure considered in Senate. (CR S1964)Mar 26 Cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 0 - 57. Record Vote Number: 52. (CR S1971)