Being a Southerner myself who has been involved in politics since I could walk, a Southern Democrat was actually a Republican in thought but a Democrat in name only to assure them the black vote. So yes they were the party of the South, but not all of them were bad.
Ah yes, MissEdie, I have no doubt that what you say is true. But the Democrats are also the party of the Ku Klux Klan - a direct outgrowth of the Civil War and aborned in the South.
I just found his tagline curious in light of all that.
And, btw, I live south of the Mason-Dixon line.