Isn't is sad the last time the Republicans were on the right side of history was 1877 ?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

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[Agnosticsherbet]

1. Teddy Roosevelt was a Republican.

So I think you can extend that to the early part of the twentieth century.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. And Warren G Harding was much better on race than Woodrow Wilson (D)

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[Agnosticsherbet]

4. The parties have changed since those distant days.

So making a blanket statement as in the OP is difficult to make.

[former9thward]

3. LBJ allied with Republican Senators to push through the Civil Rights Bill.

Southern segregationist Senators, all Democrats, were filibustering it. Senators like Al Gore Senior and Bill Clinton's mentor William Fulbright.

[HooptieWagon]

5. Herbert Hoover laid the groundwork...

...for some of FDRs depression policies. He just didn't go far enough.

[HFRN]

6. i've never liked the phrase' right side of history'

(commenting only on the phrase itself, not any issues in particular)

because it always pre-supposes that any change that is happening is for the better, it commits the fallacy of 'bandwagon'

some could have argued that not supporting Hitler (Godwin's law acknowledged) in 1931 was 'being on the wrong side of history

or any enlightenment at the dawn of the dark ages...

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. Only positive change puts you on the right side of history ./nt

[Travis_0004]

7. Highway system? Civil rights act of 1960?

Desegregating schools, sending the national guard in to not allow a democrat governor to block desegregation.