I’ve had this debate with african american liberals...and they have been brought up with the brainwashed belief that somehow the whole south switched to Republican because of civil rights and that the north became democratic. So in their minds they justify the past atrocities by saying republicans became democrats and democrats became republicans...this i believe was some altered history that democratic leaders must have came up with...even though in 1968 most of the south went to Wallace and not Richard Nixon...then they cite the southern strategy as proof that all of a sudden the republican party embraced and welcomed in the racists...its beyond frustrating how they rationalize the past and twist it to make republicans bad no matter what