On the other hand, if you ever got elected as a Democrat to public office YOU CAN NEVER BE A REAL REPUBLICAN.
And that applies no matter how Conservative you claim to be today.
They have their litmus tests ~ just like the Made Men of the Mafia. You want to run for office as a Democrat you have to lie about and brutalize a Republican candidate at least once.
In an earlier time they actually assassinated Republican candidates in the Souf' ~ 30,000 of them in fact.
These are unforgivable deaths, and those who dipped their spears in the blood, albeit 20 or 30 years later, must not be allowed anymore to darken our halls.
NO MORE RINOS.
Oh that's just plain silly and actually ignorant of the history of the South.
Up until the election of Richard Nixon as President almost ALL Southern wihte were democrats. The late 1960s began the Great Political Awakening here in the South. The Jim Crow laws were abandoned (which was good) but personally, black and white relations were always BETTER in the South than elsewhere. Finally, the laws restricting blacks were lifted. The rest of Southern society didn't change much on racial relations, which were never as bad as the North said or believed it was. The laws were wrong, and finally, we fixed them. I'll even acknowledge the courage and convictions of the men of the North and the blacks who fought to change them, and made my homeland a more just place.
Still, there was no Republican Party to speak of in the South except a handful of black professionals and a few far-sighted whites. Along with the Civil Rights movement the other huge and historic change for the South was the migration of white Southern conservatives from the democrat party to the Republican. And they changed because the democrats were not, and are not conservatives. The democrats became liberals in the late 1960's, which peaked in the 1972 nomination of anti-Vietnam war McGovernand over the past generation have (Clinton --> Obama) become socialists.
Ronals Reagan once said, "I didn't leave the democrat party, the party left me." Most white Southerners will tell you the same thing.
But to state that no true conservative could have ever been a democrat before is nonsense and ignores what happened to the United States from the 1960s until about 20 years ago. A whole region of the country basically changed party affiliations.