V.D. how about living through history for a better recollection of the facts!
Sen. Strom Thurmond did move to the Republican Party in 1964 but that was because he was angry at the Democrat leadership for not supporting his apartheid views and not because the Republican Party suddenly embraced his racism.
In every vote in both legislative chambers, a larger percentage of Republicans voted YEA, than Democrats. All of those Southern Democrats stayed Democrats until they retired or were voted out and they made sure to bring up the next generation with their racist Democrat views such as Al Gore Sr. with Al Gore Jr. and Senator Fulbright with President Bill Clinton. (From 1964 to 1967 Clinton was an intern and then a clerk in the office of Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright)
So much for your ideology shift between parties! It never happened. Democrat apologists and revisionists lie!
I am not, and have never been, a Democrat. I consider myself a Conservative Southerner. My hero was, and is, Senator Barry Goldwater, who I met and admired.
I was speaking of a time long before the era you mentioned.
Well at least you got a reply (if not an answer). The truth is democrats have always been democrats and personal enrichment has always been their primary objective.