If he stops capitalizing and punctuating, then we'll know.
People forget that for most of the history of the Republican party the Middle West was its base. Conservatives in the forties and fifties looked to leaders like Taft and Bricker from Ohio. For that matter, you couldn't say that California was a reliable liberal state until quite recently.
Far from Reagan being influenced politically by the Southern migrants to LA, it looks like he influenced them -- he broke their ties to the Democrats. In the forties and the fifties, Reagan may have personally known more immigrants from Germany or Britain than from Mississippi or Arkansas.
like so many millions of smart citizens, Reagan left the party when it became the DIMocRATS party of:
1.the lunatic left,
2."hollywierd",
3."gun control"
4.baby MURDER,
5.an ever-increasingly intrusive welfare state and
6.the repository of every NUT-JOB splinter group in the country. (if tommorrow 1% of the voters decided to engage in cannibalism, the DIMocRATS party apparatus would welcome the "eaters of men" as full-fledged members!)
as President Reagan once said, "I didn't leave the Democrat party. It left me."
SMARTER southerners left the democrat party permanently about the same time as RWR did. that is why the DIMocRATS are a DYING party (which i predict will NEVER regain the Presidentcy).
free dixie,sw