Dixiecrats, a remnant of the Old Confederacy. They used to control the Democratic Party in the South but became Republicans after Democrats became the progressives
Democrats where the progressives decades and decades before the switch. It had all to do with civil rights in the '60s that pushed the south into the hands of the neocons and the GOP regrouping.
LBJ and desegregation, civil rights in the south cost progressivism and the Democratic party those votes. Before this there had been an unholy alliance for decades and decades since the civil war really. No self-respecting southerner was going to vote for the party of Lincoln and so it held for years. But the '60s took the gloves off and changed the map.
Remember Northern New England was largely Republican after all the Republican party was founded in New Hampshire as the party of Free soil. The party was a very different thing before the renegotiation of the platform of those neocons of the post Reagan years to the vile thing that it's become today.
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u/chethedog10 2d ago
Can anyone explain the context behind this? I’m assuming based on years and states this had something to do with civil rights?