[Ditto]

There was no way a Democratic southerner was going to vote Republican in the decades after the Civil War. This tradition was passed on generation to generation...

So it was multi generational stupidity.

[central_va]

I am Conservative and I voted for Dole, McCain and Romney making me stupid too I guess.

[jmacusa]

LOL!! The whole point of the Dixiecrats in creating the Ku Klux Klan, besides the wanton murder of blacks( and Jews and Catholics) was to prevent blacks from voting. If the Dixiecrats were sure that blacks would vote Democrat than the Klan, if it had existed at all would have been little more than a bunch of local yahoo's with nothing to do on a Saturday night. The Dixiecrats knew damn well blacks weren't going to be voting Democrat. After all Fredrick Douglas was a Republican.