Even though my father and grandfather had been Eisenhower and Nixon60 and Goldwater people myself and most of my extended family lived this exodus of former Dixiecrats or social conservatives to the GOP starting with Goldwater in 1964 when he carried the Cotton states and Arizona only
By the end of Carter in 1980 it was mostly a fait accompli
Even though some southern support for a Democrat surfaced in 1992 for Slick
It took longer for the statehouses to go GOPe but I’m pretty sure all had by the end of Obama second term
Whites in the south are more social conservative about everything and especially race because of the large numbers of blacks they have always had to contend with which is something lecturing Yankees never had to much and when they did I can’t say impressed with how it turned out
Go up north even to small cities and it’s even more segregated than here...I’m thinking Grand Rapids a city I know pretty well as just one examples
The Dixiecrats died off and the Dems went left and now far left left and so southern whites migrated to the GOPe moving it further right than the Nixon Rockefeller GOPe had been
Without the South there would have been no Magnus possible because the northern GOPe would have still had the power
I have seen nutz here claim the south went GOPe because Yankees moved south. And conservatized Dixie.
Hilarious...anyone who lives here knows when Yankees move south it gets more liberal and purple as they say
Even where I live surrounded by mostly decent Michiganders in middle Tennessee.....they are still more liberal than native southerners are...not like Massachusetts thankfully
This notion Democrats 1860 and Democrats 2019 are interchangeable is just stupid posturing
Way different issues and goals for each and political pressures etc
It’s just silly no matter how much NRO sound and fury
Mississippi and Alabama in national elections ...whites vote 88-92% GOPe
Nobody else comes close not even vaunted Oklahoma
Another at least 75% southern state btw
Berate slavery all you must if it makes you feel good but that’s where it should stop
I would caution Freepers over GOP worship
We are being saved as we speak by one man....not a party
I have never been impressed with the Republicans much
Often they contrast favorably to democrats especially since FDR on but they are not our true friends
Today’s GOPe is indistinguishable from a mid 70s moderate midwestern Democrat
It is far worse that that. It is like spitting on Thomas Jefferson; misrepresenting the libertarian views of Calhoun; completely ignoring who were the strict constructionists and who the advocates of an increased role for bureaucracy in America.
In short, a shameless deception that will not stand critical examination. If anyone doubts how this foolishness will be used in academia, to undermine family teachings, let this Oberlin graduate, who fought the big government toadies in the intellectual trenches, before he was old enough to vote, assure one and all. Faculty Leftists have always sought out ideological inconsistencies to separate college students from their family values.
Very astute points you make...especially the fallacy of comparing democrats then and now.
I agree totally. Comparing Democrats of 1860 to Democrats of today is ludicrous. In addition let’s say you could. So what? Do you think that most blacks will embrace whites and the GOP?
Bravo! “moderate, midwestern, Democrats”... the GOPe described rather well.
Think of them like insurance agents from Kansas— only want subscribers and rate payers... just like dems want other “subscribed” extra sources of “revenue” for “investment” (words bill c. used to describe massive tax increases for “govt.” investment.)
Govt. doesn’t invest, if it did, what would be its expected capital “gain”— So investment means “throw money at it”- the payola... patronage, and both “parties” participate.