Blackrook
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Once the Republicans voted for the Civil Rights laws, which wouldn't have passed if Democrats were deciding the issue, Southerners knew they could no longer discriminate against black people. So that issue died.
And only once the issue had died, did Southerners realize that everything else they believed in was conservative so more and more they formed alliances with Republicans. They were called "blue dog" Democrats, and sometimes they sided with Republicans, and on other issues they sided with Democrats.
But as the Northern Democrats pulled further and further to the left, Southern Democrats realized that the Democrat party had left them behind, so they started converting to Republican.
But the racist Southern Democrats stayed in the Democratic party, like Robert Byrd of West Virginia, who was a Grand Wizard of the KKK.
And only once the issue had died, did Southerners realize that everything else they believed in was conservative so more and more they formed alliances with Republicans. They were called "blue dog" Democrats, and sometimes they sided with Republicans, and on other issues they sided with Democrats.
But as the Northern Democrats pulled further and further to the left, Southern Democrats realized that the Democrat party had left them behind, so they started converting to Republican.
But the racist Southern Democrats stayed in the Democratic party, like Robert Byrd of West Virginia, who was a Grand Wizard of the KKK.