Their desire to conserve slavery and then later on white supremacy in the form of segregation. It's where the roots of conservatism begin.
Gawd DAMNED but you're fucking stupid.
You have no clue what words mean.
Conservative in modern parlance - limited small government, individual rights, property rights, free markets.
Obviously that is the opposite of modern democrats, but what of the democrats in the Antebellum South?
Limited Government? Well, not so much. Those democrats, just like democrats today, held the state to be supreme, that the state had the right to infringe on the populace at large on behalf of the Oligarch ruling caste. Like Mark Zuckerberg and George Soros, the plantation owners were the obscenely wealth who owned the democrat party outright.
Property rights? Well, not so much. Georgia passed the "Small Holder Act" in 1831 that empowered Oligarchs to steal the land of small farmers using the power of eminent domain. Then, as now, the democrats had complete contempt for the property rights of the lower and middle class.
Individual rights? Are fucking kidding me? You enslaved people. democrats now have illegal Mexicans as the new slave caste.
Free Markets? The Cotton Producing States as they called themselves fixed prices across the board to ensure that no market based competition was allowed from one state to another.
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You're a bigot and a racist, but virtually nothing you post has any basis in historical fact.