People on this forum babble about this all the time but the fact is that the Solid South went south a long time ago: the Democrat party is the party of non-whites now, and there will be no mention of LBJ, Orval Faubus, George Corley Wallace, Lester Maddox or any other segregationist that ran on the Democratic Party ticket after Reconstruction.
Forget it. The Dims swung way left in the 1920's and never came back: it was only a matter of time before the Southerners found themselves isolated. Now they register Republican, a product of the Southern Strategy of Richard M. Nixon, but they have about almost nothing in common with the Rockefeller Republicans except their disdain for the Federal government...but for entirely different reasons.
If the Republican Party wants to position itself as being in a race to see who can outpander who to non-whites, and thus be proven "not racist", then that's a race they can't win and still be "Republicans" - the Dims will always steal, print, beg, tax and take more money to buy votes. It's a race to bankruptcy and it's pretty much finished - we're there.
So get over it. As soon as Romney gets the nomination, all the bad things about the Mormon cult are going to come out: contempt for everyone else ("gentiles"), institutionalized racism (everyone else did too, they just waited too long to ditch it), mistreatment of women (child polygamy still), insularity, the whole loopy Utah financial crime scene (land of the multi-level marketing scam), etc.
All they're doing is waiting for the suckers to step in the doo-doo to unleash the barrage, and that will be it. They will paint the guy as a whack job cleverly hiding behind a soft exterior, and way more off the wall then Barack HUSSEIN Obama, who will be portrayed (again) as a Noble Victim, instead of the foreign, anti-American alien he is.
The 22 mil a year Mittens gets from clipping coupons isn't going to help that effort either. Not exactly a guy that unemployed semi-conductor engineers in Dallas can relate to.
the Democrat party is the party of non-whites now