Alabama was a one party state until the 90s, and even though the GOP won Governor and AG races, it took a while for the down ticket offices to get to a two party situation.
2010 was the year the GOP got to the top of the hill...now the writing is on the wall.
And some of the Alabama “rinos” are probably more personally conservative than a lot of the “conservatives” in Cali, NY, Illinois etc etc.
So true, people here forget Reagan was a liberal democrat at one time. Does that make him a RINO? I think not.