[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.

[wardaddy]

I am talking about the voting populace of the white south if whicberh I am a member old enough to remember at 55 and the crop of GOP. pols since then who followed social conservatism from post LBJ. Dempsey to the GOP diluting the existing social moderates there who had voted for the social liberalism of the 60s to begin with

There is no question of that...the voting white south fled to the GOP and pushed it right.

And btw...John Stennis was a patriot..democrat or nit...lookvit up.