Why are these neo-Confederates in the Republican Party at all?
How about the number on this thread.
These “neo-confederates” as you call them are more conservative than ANY Republican except the handful in the Freedom Caucus. You may recall Sen. Jesse Helms? That kind of conservative, Constitutional conservatives and great students of history. In NC it was just such local politicians that delivered the NC House and Senate to the Republican control in over 100 years. And how? By identifying the democrat identity politics of queers, queer marriage and the great underground of pedophiles within the state democrat machine— then, linking this information with the traditional black churches, religious conservatives who recognized that the queer agenda was further eliminating the male role model for young black males, and eroding the political and cultural stability of their community. By linking this breakdown with the democrat party perpetuating it— it separated this voting bloc from the democrat machine of welfare, abortion, dope and fatherless rootless families. They removed major, white liberal machine dems and replaced them with white and black conservatives.
The northern so-called republicans just do not get the South-— in any fashion. And probably never will, with the attitude of somehow “knowing better” and a holier than thou self aggrandizing ivy league arrogance. Mr. Trump would not have won the South, were it not for Southerners of the legacy of Jesse Helms and yes, Richard Russell. (not, however LBJ/CLinton).
It was never about politics AFAIC.
It was about invasion. Like islamists in Israel, to put it in terms you may, or may not get.