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A full quarter of Democrats voted against it (26%) while only 2% of Republicans did.
If only half of Republicans had abstained (or just left town), it wouldn't have passed.
And good old boy racist LBJ only grudgingly signed it, as he was backed into a corner.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/89-1965/s78