As for your link Robert Byrd was in the Klan and he stayed in the democratic party. However, He did vote for the ACA (Obamacare). Did any republican Senators vote for it?
Originally Posted by adav8s28
Adav8s28, What does the Affordable Care Act have to do with racism?
Your link does not get into the fact that The segregationists, supremeists and seperatists are in the Republican Party now.
Originally Posted by adav8s28
These links, from Cheap Charlie's thread, are worth a look,
https://news.gallup.com/poll/354638/...-new-high.aspx
https://news.gallup.com/poll/254120/...president.aspx
Ninety three percent of people polled by Gallup in the South in 2021 approved of interracial marriage. And ninety-four percent of Republicans polled in 2019 would vote for a Black candidate for president.
BTW which party do most southern states vote for in a Presidential Election, starting with the 1968 election? Answer the republican candidate.
Originally Posted by adav8s28
It wasn't about race. Rather Republican conservative values after, say, the year 1996, won out in the South.
Hubert Humphrey and George McGovern, the Democratic nominees in 1968 and 1972, were weak candidates. Carter swept the south except for Virginia in 1976. Reagan was an exceptionally strong candidate, and yes, he won the south except Georgia in 1980. He won every state except Minnesota in 1984, and Bush Sr. won most of the country as well in 1988. Then Clinton came along, and in 1992 and 1996, split the south with the Republican candidates.