Windflier is correct Jmacusa - Dixicrat was a specific term given to southern democrats who voted Republican in order to oppose Truman. The term only came into use in 1948. It isn’t synonymous with “southerner” or “southern conservative”
I don’t doubt that most of our southern FRiends - like Windflier here - are conservatives....just like I don’t doubt that FRiends from northern states are conservatives as well.
So in your original comment about the 19th century south being democrat - that’s true - but the second part about contemporary southern conservatives - that’s not accurate.
Ok fine.I concede the point. I’ll admit I should have narrowed it down then’’rockrr’’ to those southerners who seem to only show up on these Civil War threads almost piously claiming to be ‘’conservatives’’ yet swoon all over Lee and Davis and the Confederacy.That only tells me they’re phonies at the very least or hypocrites in the extreme. The prevailing message in all these Civil War threads that I’ve seen here is a slight bow to the flaw in the Souths reasons for the War but the not too subtle message that somehow ‘’The (Lost) Cause’’ was some noble effort on the part of the gentlemanly, agricultural South to preserve and maintain some sort of a near Camelot-like existence of kindly white masters and happy darkies in the face of the brutal, industrial North and all those horrible Yankees and well, quite frankly it pisses me off. Perhaps I’ve missed those threads that give a different perspective on The Civil War like maybe some Southern historian maybe apologizing for the destruction, death and misery caused by those Southern plutocrats and their ‘’cause’’. And as for Dixiecrats? Well sorry to say but George Wallace, Lester Maddox, Ross Barnett and others like them, be gone from this earth are still of recent memory to make that term relevant. I’ll stop using it when those Southerners stop throwing around epithets like “Yankee’’(never liked that word) and “Lincoln bootlicker’’ among others. Fair enough?