The response of the South to the civil rights act can be said to be of compliance. The leaders who were vocal opposers of discrimination subsided into acceptance of the law. The act reflected a period of adjustment from the South in response to the act.
Miniscule rioting and violence were observed and some businessmen and politicians could hold up the courage to display some sort of resistance. The ban called out in support of excluding blacks was greatest in the “rim states” which included parts of modern-day Virginia, Texas, North Carolina and Florida.
