No,not quite that long.Listen to some of JFK's speeches,for example.I think the turning point was '72.Since McGovern every single one of their nominees has proven himself to be an absolute piece of filth.
Perhaps it's a coincidence but late 60's/early 70's was about the time when my parents,both democrats since youth in the 1930's,flipped to the GOP.
I think the history of the nuclear bomb shows perfectly clearly that already in the forties the US was being eaten from the inside by leftism.
“Perhaps it’s a coincidence but late 60’s/early 70’s was about the time when my parents,both democrats since youth in the 1930’s,flipped to the GOP.”
Carter’s failures and the dangers he put our country was probably the icing on the cake re good democrats leaving their party.
The good democrats at that time either became independents or republican.
Then they voted for Reagan and handed the rats back to back defeats before their mediots rescued them.