the republican party is no longer a yankee party!
That's because the Democratic party turned whites against blacks for years. Now they have turned blacks against whites. Really, the Civil War was started because a bunch of ELITES wanted sucession so they could keep slavery, and so they rallied up the non-slave owning majority poor whites to go along with it. Which is VERY MUCH like today.
One might say that the Republican Party is no longer a republican party. I remember when it was for smaller and less intrusive government, states rights, and fiscal responsiblility. All stands that are an anathma to your southern Republican Party. Maybe we need to bring back Yankees like Ronald Reagan?