“The switch of the white southern voter who once supported segregation from Democrat to Republican meant a Southern sweep for Nixon in 1972 and Reagan in 1984 and more sweeps for the GOP beyond that in congressional races”
Wow, with friends like you, who needs enemies. Nice of you to reinforce one of the Left’s favorite characterization of Conservatives as racists. I myself prefer the rise of the GOP in the South being a result of the movement of business to the Sun Belt due to air conditioning and Northern Liberal economics. A creation of a large managerial class in the South. Take Deliverance as an example. Jon Voigt and his companions represented the new GOP future, while the mountain men were the racist Democrat past. The new GOP South is dressed in khakis and golf shirts, it is not the overalls of the old racist South.
I’m not in the propaganda business for either major political party.
JFK and RFK were courting racist segregationists as Democrat leaders in their time, trying to hold the party together after Kennedy’s narrow 1960 win over Nixon.
I’ve knocked on doors and talked to racist voters who were registered R to get their votes in primary elections.
Racists have been in both political parties and are to this day.
When the Clinton-Reno supporters came out onto the streets of Miami to counter the Cuban community over Elian Gonzalez the African-American leaders and their followers willingly joined in protest with whites who also resented the Cuban community and waved Confederate flags in protest.