Yep, Democrats who loved socialism.
The South, up until the 1960s, was STAUNCHLY in the Democrats camp: A Republican just didn't have a chance in the South. (One of the reasons the South was so bitterly opposed to the Republicans was because of the Republican influence and control in the federal government, which resulted in Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War; and, perhaps more offensive to the South, Reconstruction. )
They sure didn't mind the federal power given to them by Wilson's and FDR's socialism though did they?