[Genoa]

A strange reversal. Used to be that conservative white southerners would make it their policy to vote Democrat, while the blacks, grateful to the party of Lincoln, would make it their practice to vote Republican.

[TheBigIf]

The confederate democrats of the south were never conservatives. They were libertarians though the term wasn’t used. They had a much more radical view of liberty that included the liberty to enslave others or deny equal rights to representation to others as well.