[wardaddy]

actually Dixiecrats most certainly with very few exceptions become Republicans

the irony being rather rich..my WBTS ancestry (whose graves I visited last weekend btw) who survived the war and Reconstruction would be aghast until they surveyed the new political scene.

I know NeoYankees just hate that with a passion

However, without us...the descendents...you would be a minority party given how whites vote for the most part where you live sneering down at us.

Sucks I know..but you’ll get over it.

Besides...this year it’s all Yankee anyhow including one pretty darn good one who might be our future...one i can sure live with.

Southern social conservatives are just dependable this year but not much represented.

[o2bfree]

Complete rewrite of history. The real racists and segregationists in the Democratic party stayed in the Democratic party after the civil rights era.

Most notably among them were Senator Byrd, and Senator Stennis, but the list goes on and on.

[SwankyC]

actually Dixiecrats most certainly with very few exceptions become Republicans

Not so much. o2bfree is correct. That's a compete fabrication. Of 26 admitted dixiecrats, only 3 became republicans. The rest went back to the democrat fold.

[Durus]

"actually Dixiecrats most certainly with very few exceptions become Republicans"

Factually they didn't. I came across a website that had a list of all the known Dixiecrats and traced their party affiliated once the Dixiecrat party fell apart. Something like 90% of them became democrats.

[Ohioan]

You, as usual, show a correct knowledge of political history. The swing of Southern Conservatives--and because of their swing, the gradual improvement in the Federal Judiciary, really started when Strom Thurmond switched parties in 1964 to support Barry Goldwater. It was Thurmond, also, who held Nixon & other Repupblican Presidents feet to the fire, thereafter, in trying to get more Conservatives on the Federal Bench.

Personally, through High School & College & Law School, I was a Conservative Democrat--my political identification with such men as Harry Byrd of Virginia--who was very well respected in Southern Ohio as a true statesman, by men in both political parties. While I began to work for Barry Goldwater's candidacy right after the 1960 election, I did not actually switch parties, myself until the 1964 campaign.

Without the Southern Conservative swing to the Republicans, neither Nixon nor Reagan could have been elected--nor for that matter would either Bush. That is political reality. It is truly a shame that at this late date, there is still such a terrible bias against Southern Conservatives.

Of course Jesse Jackson epitomizes what I have referred to as Creating Hate In America Today. Those who seek to deliberately undermine the rooted Southerners sense of heritage are no friends to any American future. It is the South where the largest percentage of the population still understand the multi-generational pursuit that is any nation, tribe, community or family.

Continue to keep the Faith!

Bill Flax