What is inherently conservative about Jim Crow and wanting to deny civil rights to a sizable part of your population?
A Dixiecrat was a States Rights small government man, the states come first, not the Federal government. That was a Dixiecrat. In social issues they were conservative, they just wanted the right to control their own destiny, not Washington DC control is for them. Forced busing and affirmative action (all liberal democrat ideas) were the absolutely terrible ideas that didn’t work.
George Wallace tried to warn us about the main stream media: "There are those pointy-headed liberals who are always writin' lies about me --- and about you!''