“On balance, the Democrats are now the party of freedom and liberty.”
Yes, ask the Christians, the Southerners, the small business owners, conservatives in colleges - they feel totally liberated, I’m sure.
This has been going on since 1928, ever since the Democrats figured that in future all they needed was the big-city mobs and machines. They walked away from the South. There were a lot of issues like lynching and Jim Crow that helped drive the Dems away from the Southern populists ..... but most of all it was northern liberal Media and its drift to the left, as more and more socialist-leaning J-school grads began driving the whole institution to the left (with NKVD/KGB infiltration of the J-schools helping), that gradually demonized the whole South (and heterosexuals, and conservative Catholics, and .... well, who ya got? Dick Nixon?).