My father supported Henry "Scoop" Jackson for President in 1972. The Democrats threw Mayor Daley's delegation off the floor of the convention, and nominated anti-war extreme leftist George McGovern. My father became one of millions of "Democrats for Nixon" and put that bumper sticker on his Rambler.
But eventually, he gave up and re-registered as a Republican and so did my mother. They were conservative Catholics, but they voted Democrat because they lived in Chicago and were part of the Daley machine, and everyone in Chicago voted Democrat.
My parents did not leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left them.
Now, the Democrats have taken a baseball bat and hit white folks over the head so many times that they have driven almost all of them into the hands of the Republicans. I'm not sure why they thought it would be an intelligent idea to beat up on white folks, but they did, especially white males.
It makes no sense at all because we're still a white majority nation and white males are still a huge percentage of the population.
And there's not enough blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, and gays in the country to make up for the loss of the white vote.