Yeah, well the Klan (the terrorist wing of the democRAT party) was founded by Confederate veterans (democrats)...continued and expanded by segregationist democRATs, to keep black people from voting for Republicans.
It worked! Now it's called the NAACP (more RATs).
By the way, I ain't no kind of "Yankee"...
You sound like some kind of Yankee to me. BTW name one conservative legislator from New England, or from the north east for that matter.
12 hours and counting. Still waiting for that example of a NE U.S. conservative.