The_Doctor
SilentCal1924
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« on: November 23, 2016, 09:49:09 PM » |
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The whole South becoming Republican is rooted in cultural and economic mores. The Republican Party obviously won the South in 1964 and started winning it on the Presidential level. But deep into the 1980s, the South was very Democratic. The realignment nationally in the south just took a while to intensify and deepen.
For example, Kentucky is going through the same process. Democratic, for ages, went Clinton-Gore, but shifted towards the GOP and now is finally getting an all GOP government.
It's a little cheap to call them racists, as much as the South has always had been culturally conservative and aligned with the GOP because of that reason. Dating to the Founders, Dixie has been pretty culturally conservative.
The South, BTW, did not complete its transition until 2010.
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