Many of the old folks here, like my Granpa, voted democrat till the day they died.
I used to argue with him all the time about it. Explaining that the Republicans were no longer the party of Yankee abolitionists and the democrats were just plain old communists...
I did get him once, when, after declaring my desire to vote for Reagan in 1984, he was mad at me, but then I pointed out how Jesse Jackson was running for the dem nomination. He was left sputtering and cursing, but did not have a comeback! He died not long after that, and did not see his democrats auger fully into communism. He would have HATED Obama (he was an old school segregationist).
Still, I ask, are we not seeing such political winds change again? It is not up to me to abandon the Republicans, but up to the party elites. I will always support conservatism; will they?
Note: I do not think this is happening in Alabama too much, but I correspond with Shelby and he is mostly a RINO, too.
Mr. Shelby is a RINO. He switched from a Senate Democrat to Senate RINO some time in 1994, when Alabama was moving from Commy Dem to Republican