[samuel_adams_us]

The south were not all democrats. I am from Southern Virginia and I am not a democrat, same for my family which has lived there since 1607. Pull on your ears!

[Grand Old Partisan]

I'm talking about the South of the 1860s. The 1860 Republican ticket got ZERO votes in the solidly Democrat South of the day. And the blacks and the southern Unionists were not Democrats -- they voted GOP as soon as they could. The Confederate rebels were all Democrats.