I have explained why the South voted democratic from reconstruction thru and until Reagan. It was a reconstruction legacy handed down from generation to generation. No matter who the Democrats ran as a candidate no one in the South, blacks excluded, would ever vote for Republican up to say 1980. The Party of Lincoln was an anathema.
Ironically before the 1920's blacks voted for the Party of Lincoln and not the Democrats.
You keep posting how the south would have been the model for conservatism had they won but there is absolutely no historical evidence that that would be so. I don't care why they voted for globalist pro-international-banksters like Wilson, or socialists like FDR, but they did, and those two were the biggest enemies of freedom and American sovereignty that held the White House historically.
The south...pro-slavery, pro Wilson, pro-FDR...not a good record of freedom whatsoever.
Ironically before the 1920's blacks voted for the Party of Lincoln and not the Democrats.
Is that a bad thing?
Why "ironically"? The "Party of Lincoln" freed the slaves. The Democrats had wanted to keep African-Americans enslaved.
Maybe the "irony" is that very few Blacks actually could vote, because most of them lived in Democrat-controlled Southern states that denied them basic rights.
What you're also missing is the strong populist strain in Southern politics that, until civil rights became an issue, inclined them to support the Democrats.
So let me get this straight - you are actually making an argumant that today, in 2014, the North and West coast are more Conservative than the South and Mid West?
Why lump the Midwest in with the South? What side were they on in the war anyway?
You mean the blacks in the North voted Republican. In the solid Democrat South, they weren't even allowed to vote.