I am so sick of this lie. Remember the 1968 election: Nixon, Humphrey, and Wallace? Wallace, a DEMOCRAT, ran as a third party, and carried: AR, LA, MS, AL, and GA. This split the DEMOCRAT vote and threw the win to Nixon. I grew up in Louisiana, I can tell you that the Southern racists, as you call them, stayed Democrat. Anyone that moved to the Republican party did so after accepting Blacks as equals.
Democrats never did and still don't see Black people as equal. That is why they are the party of: Slavery, Jim Crow, Welfare, (because they think Blacks can't support themselves), Birth Control and Abortion, (because they think Blacks can't control themselves), and Affirmative Action, (because they have always and will always think of Black people as lesser humans, unable to compete on a level playing field.
Republicans believe that if you truly level the field, Blacks will rise to the challenge.
I’d be a bit careful with this. Tyson did an earlier book, ‘Blood Done Call My Name”, which was lambasted by some as allegedly being more fiction than fact.
I have no ideas on this new book, as I haven’t seen it.