I think Paula Deen was raise in a “We always have been Democrat” family. I have run in to go many of these people who will not give it up because mom or dad was a Democrat. They quote what their parents use to say about Republicans. You tell them that it is not the party of their parent but the family tie blinds their hearing.
Agreed 100%. There is a lot of that, too.
I have always found that level of intellectual laziness disgusting. You can't reason with those people because they don't actually think; they just repeat what they're told like smiling little robots. They're not worth a conversation beyond "Hello, how are you?"