[Yardstick]

Here in the South, if you encounter a true racist, odds are he'll be an old-school yellow dog Democrat whose daddy voted Democrat and whose daddy's daddy voted Democrat, etc.

[Sherman Logan]

if you encounter a true racist, odds are he'll be an old-school yellow dog Democrat

True, and largely forgotten.

However, the yellow dog Democrats were an intensely conservative bunch.

I contend it was a perverted conservatism in its attitudes towards racial issues, but you certainly cannot argue they were liberal or radical in any way.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

I live in Texas and I’ve never encountered a racist in my daily life. That doesn’t mean they don’t exist, but they’ve largely been discredited and (thankfully) for the most part keep to themselves.

[pepsionice]

I grew up and left the south over 30 years ago. But amongst the 40-odd guys that I grew up with (friends, school buds, etc)...I’d say that 12 are KKK members and all 12 are staunch Democrats...which they will tell you to your face that they are Democrats. One of the 12 is a church deacon, since age 30, and one of the top union dudes in the county. The only absolute in this KKK membership deal is that 99 percent of the members are non-college graduates. Over the years of going back home and getting updated...you notice that most of the higher educated guys never got hooked up with the KKK...for whatever reason.