[FLT-bird]

Some Southern Conservatism began to emerge in the 1938 Elections. It took a good deal of time to develop. And it was not mainly about Segregation, that is a leftist lie.

The South has always favored decentralized power, a balanced budget and a limited government. That goes all the way back to the time that they were colonies. That's not something new that emerged in 1938. It had always been there. That's what caused the South's break with the Democrat party. They became the party of big government, centralized power and socialism all of which were anathema to Southerners.

[cowboyusa]

Rediculous. The Confederacys Government was way larger than the North and Socalized entire industries. The South was a Center of the Populist Parry. Most Southern Senators supported the Facist New Deal. Jackson was a founder of what is considered modern Conservatism. The orginal Maga. The Union, Small Goverment, and Anti- Hamiltonianism and Monopoly.

[Wallace T.]

From the end of Reconstruction to the 1970s, the Southern states were one party, Democrat states. A few areas, like East Tennessee and the Texas Hill Country, were Republican but they were in the decided minority. However, the Democrats included a full spectrum of ideology, from politicians more conservative than most Democrats, like Larry McDonald and Coke Stevenson, to extreme liberals like Claude Pepper and Ralph Yarbrough. The South did vote for FDR and Wilson, as well as LBJ, but the region also voted for conservatives like Grover Cleveland and John Davis.