Oh come on!
Nobody here was a Republican before Nixon! The big change happened over the next 30 years.
If Alabamians didn’t vote for a Republican because they used to be a democrat, half the state leaders—and ANYONE over 65—would be out of a job.
The fact of the matter is Southern democrats were conservative. But starting in the 60s the democrats surged to the Left, while the Republicans moved right. The Republicans are now the moderate-conservative party, while the democrats are straight-out socialists.
Southern whites are the most vilified people in the eyes of today’s democrats. So leaving them is seen as a sane move, like recoiling upon seeing a maggot-laden corpse.
Remember Reagan saying “I didn’t leave the democratic party; the party left ME!”
Some thing over the whole South.
I would liken it to looking in a mirror and seeing that maggot-laden corpse.
You make a good point, one that I will not argue with, since I am an admirer of some of George Wallace's policies, wherein he improved the infrastructure of the state despite the efforts of a republican legislature to load every improvement bill offered up with some of the most egregious pork one has ever seen.
Despite that, and as a democrat, he brought Alabama into the 19th century.
He just made a stupid mistake by standing in a certain school house door...but he did it as a democrat and that will not be forgotten by anyone, "d" or "r", especially now.
But...be all that as it may...I'm speaking of the current sleaze that once rode the coat-tails of Billy Jeff Clinton, when it was fashionable to do so in the state of Alabama, because anyone that knew which way the political winds were blowing, knew that no matter how vile the piece of shit Clinton administration was, he had the nod of every black politician, pastor and community leader (a rising formidable force in those days) in Alabama.
So, then, when Billy Jeff fell out of favor and the democratic policies became suspect, the winds of change and white back-lash dictated that for a politician to survive, especially a sleaze politician, it would be politically expedient to change over, 'cause, you know, that's what the good ol' boys want, now.
I have little to no use for that type of political shenanigans...which is another reason I have little use for Kay Ivey or our current senior senator.
But rest assured, I am quite familiar with the Republican Democrat that is now a Democratic Republican...or whatever they became or morphed into.
Conservative values are above and beyond either party, in my opinion.
The current crop of republicans are ass-kissing go-alongs-to-get-alongs.
We will never get anything substantive with them...we need to boot them all and start over...not that I'm convinced that improve things, either.
But I'm not so naive as to think that will ever happen.
Yertle the Tertle and Lyin Ryan will simply morph into whatever iteration is needed to ensure their longevity...and that is the problem I have...and I think it's one of the things that oldsters like me remember most about a damned politician.
But as I said...sometimes we have to hold our nose, back up to the lever, and pull it in desperation.
Roy Moore is one of those that make me hold my nose.
But I would much rather have him in the Senate, regardless of his past circus performances, than a man that supports Trump, just because his handlers told him that he should and a man that thinks Yertle the Tertle walks on water, just because he may have held his hand and kissed his ass his first three days in DC.
Roy Moore is a rabble-rouser.
I know that...everyone knows that.
And a rabble rouser is just what we're looking for, now.
Otherwise, why did Trump carry the state?