Well said; and you’ll like this:
Conservative coalition
“In the United States, the conservative coalition was an unofficial Congressional coalition bringing together the conservative majority of the Republican Party and the conservative, mostly Southern, wing of the Democratic Party. It was dominant in Congress from 1937 to 1963 and remained a political force until the mid 1980s, eventually dying out in the 1990s...”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_coalition
Thanks. I agree that they have mostly “died off”, but conservatism had always been a southern staple even when it had a D by its name.