...Americans when that was not true? All the "southern racist Democrats" like Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms, left the Democratic Party once the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed by Lyndon Johnson, and became Dixiecrats, and then became modern-day Republicans.
Not to mention, the Southern Strategy started by Richard Nixon and used ever since has kept the South in Republican hands.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
Barrack Urkel, maybe you should stop parsing quotes from the article: "Although the phrase "Southern strategy" is often attributed to Richard Nixon strategist Kevin Phillips, he did not originate it,[1] but merely popularized it."
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