.....those were still the people who would have been called Dixies that later morphed into Republican strongholds later.
Wasn't it you that stated:
You can try to claim that the Southern Strategy is a wives tale, but anyone who can read knows you are full of it. It was an actual thing, and was actually implemented by the Republican Party in the 60's and 70's.
So now that we know there was no mass migration of Dixiecrats to the Republican party in the 60s and 70s, the SS is a myth. It was based on the accusations of all these racist Democrats becoming republicans and you can't find any of those people who migrated over (which the SS was predicated on) because Liberals have been called out on this myth for years now. Hence the wives tale that you so boldly defended.
Now you want to claim its the ideology that changed and not the actual people. You can change what you want to claim over and over but what you can't change is the actual Democrat votes on civil rights, or the history of the Republican party who actually freed the slaves.
The Republican Party emerged in 1854 to combat the Kansas–Nebraska Act and the expansion of slavery into American territories. The early Republican Party consisted of African-Americans, northern white Protestants, businessmen, professionals, factory workers, and farmers.
Over the last 100 years, Republicans have stood up for African Americans while Democrats not only stood on the sidelines, but in fact served as obstructionists to civil liberties.
Democrats voted to keep Africans Americans in slavery, opposing the 13th Amendment which officially freed the slaves. Only four Democrats voted for it.
Republicans also passed the 14th Amendment which granted slaves U.S. citizenship; Democrats voted against it.
Republicans also passed the 15th Amendment which gave slaves the right to vote. Not a single one of the 56 Democrats in Congress voted for it.
Long after slavery was over, the Democratic Party continued down their path to deny African Americans their rights. Wikipedia refers to this as the era of "disenfranchisement" when "Democrats worked to exclude blacks" from civil liberties.
The Democratic Party identified itself as the 'white man's party' and demonized the Republican Party as being 'Negro dominated,' even though whites were in control.
The Democratic Party was responsible for passing Jim Crow laws, in addition to Black Civil Codes that forced Americans to utilize separate drinking fountains, swimming pools, and other facilities in the 20th century.
Even Democratic icons such as Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Act while in the U.S. Senate. Sen. Al Gore, Sr., D-Tenn., also opposed it.
It was also a Republican, Sen. Everett Dirksen from Illinois, who wrote numerous pieces of legislation including the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which banned discrimination in housing.
It was Republican President Richard M. Nixon who introduced the "Philadelphia Plan" that serves as the blueprint for affirmative action today.
It was Republican President Ronald Reagan who in 1984 signed into law the holiday now known as Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
That's right, these were Republicans, not Democrats.
So you want to explain, (now that your Southern strategy myth is debunked) just when this magical change in ideology took over? I guess since you can't find any actual evidence of this Southern strategy, you now need to push another narrative of after 200 years of the Republican party defending the Black race in America while Democrats all hated them, we all just somehow changed our minds on both sides?
Yeah. lets roll with that BS for a while
