Southern Democrats: Gone with the Wind

TheCollegeConservative ^ | 01/24/2012 | Alan Groves

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

As an avid history buff, I learned long ago that home of conservatism was in the Democrat Party, primarily located in the Southern states. In the late 1800's the 'Progressives' were Republicans.

You said it. I am also an avid history buff and I totally agree.

[Pelham]

What nonsense. An education into the political philosophy of Andrew Jackson, James Polk, or any number of southern Democrats of the 19th century would serve to correct your miseducation.

A good start would be for you to read Clyde Wilson’s essays in his From Union to Empire

[Fledermaus]

We conservatives took back the South from the racist, black hating Democrats. They still can’t get over it.

[I_be_tc]

Later

[urtax$@work]

impulses endowed to us by our southern ancestors are beginning to resurface: an assertive individualism, economic independence, a love of local liberties, and affection for traditional values

"Throwing off the shackles of Reconvengence(reconstruction) one yoke at a time..." (my quote)

Witnessing my ancestral ascensions from Democrats to Not-Democrats in East Texas, i would agree with most of this article. Time frame also about right for my elders.

[urtax$@work]

gabriellah: ; all
this got me to remembering some latent stuff (loose string thoughts).
1. Reconstruction vestiges still there (or recently)in the South. Texas first non-dem Governor since civil war was Bill Clements i think. Happened too in another southern state in 2008 i think.

2. There is some federal 5th circuit or SCOTUS law (against discrimination or something ) that applies only to southern states. Other FReepers may know which one.

[Ohioan]

I believe that Alan Shivers, the Democratic Governor of Texas in the late 1950s, switched parties while still in office--but I could be wrong. I think it may have been about the same time that John Tower was elected to the Senate as a Republican--but again, I could be wrong.

William Flax