Because the Republicans were once associated with the North, the Union, and imposed Reconstruction on us.
We in the South are the only Americans to face complete military defeat and occupation of our homelands.
It took a REALLY long time for all who remember and their children to die off. Even so, many grandchildren of the defeated took a defiant view politically. The last of this generation is passing or have already died.
Ronald Reagan was once a democrat, but as he said, the party left him, and that was in the 1950s.
It took another generation in the South to see that, and even so, it was a slow rollover since the 1980s.
I can't condemn politicians older than me for once being democrat, because that's almost all of them.
Bright took far too long and I never would consider voting for him but a NEVERTRUMPER is higher on the list to remove.
If Bright wins, he'll be on probation, so he needs to vote and speak wisely. Otherwise he'll be a one-termer again.
As you said a Hobson choice, but we have to make decide based on what's on the table.
“but a NEVERTRUMPER is higher on the list to remove”
Bears repeating.