The Civil Rights Movement and Nixon's "Southern Strategy" turned red states blue. The Obama election pushed almost all remaining old racist southern democrats to the republican side. There are a few racist inbred cave people still voting democrat. They ain't got no school'n, they don't know how...
The founding fathers were a mixed batch. The information is all on this WWW for anyone wanting to learn it. Obviously, most of the founders were more progressive than the vast majority of the christian right believe. American politics were definitely more open minded before the huge migration of...