The majority of Southerners didn't switch party's they fled to South America, or remained a democrat till death

[Wyatt earp]

Examples only three Dixie cats switch party's Storm in Norman was the prime example, on the the other side Al Gore's dad remained a loyal democrat

Jimmy Carter won the South

The generation X southerners started voting republican in masse for higher wage manufacturing jobs as we can see in states like South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia

The average conservative confederate southerner didn't switch party's they fled to South America or died off

When the American Confederacy lost the Civil War in May 1865, 10,000 Southerners fled the US for a small city in Brazil, where they could rebuild their lives and carry on their traditions. Now, 150 years later, their story has been seemingly erased from the history books.May 7, 2017
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The Confederacy Made Its Last Stand in Brazil | HISTORY

After the Civil War, more than 10,000 Southerners left the U.S. rather than submit to Yankee rule.

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A Slice of the Confederacy in the Interior of Brazil (Published 2016)

A city in São Paulo State that Americans fled to after the Civil War still celebrates Dixie culture, without dwelling on slavery or the battle flag.

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The town in Brazil that embraces the Confederate flag

The US South isn't the only place in the world you'll find the Confederate flag still flying - it's also proudly displayed in the rural Brazilian town of Santa Barbara D'Oeste.

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The debate over flying the Confederate flag has reignited in the US, but the American South isn't the only place in the world you'll see the emblem - it's also proudly displayed in the rural Brazilian town of Santa Barbara D'Oeste.

Once a year, the descendants of about 10,000 Confederates that fled the United States to Brazil after the US Civil War have a sort of family reunion.

"They all take part in stereotypically southern things like square dances, eating fried chicken and biscuits, and listening to George Strait," says Asher Levine, a Sao Paulo-based correspondent for Reuters.

"And a lot of Confederate flags everywhere, all over the place."

 

[Esdraelon]

How ironic that THIS time around, the "confederates" will be fighting FOR THE CONSTITUTION?

 

[WinterBorn]

The first republican gov. of Alabama since Reconstruction was not elected because people were voting republican. He was elected because he ran every 4 years with no expectation of winning, and the democrats ruined their chances when the party overruled the voters in the primary. The democratic machine wanted Baxley to win. Graddick got the most votes, but the dems put Baxley's name as the nominee. I am a big fan of Bill Baxley. But the voters went with a primitive baptist minister with no experience.

 

[Wyatt earp]

The first republican gov. of Alabama since Reconstruction was not elected because people were voting republican. He was elected because he ran every 4 years with no expectation of winning, and the democrats ruined their chances when the party overruled the voters in the primary. The democratic machine wanted Baxley to win. Graddick got the most votes, but the dems put Baxley's name as the nominee. I am a big fan of Bill Baxley. But the voters went with a primitive baptist minister with no experience.

That's interesting have to Google it

 

[whitehall]

Even if the figure is accurate, 10,000 is hardly the majority of the people who survived the Civil War in the South. The survivors held an abiding hatred for Lincoln's republican party and as such remained solidly loyal to the democrat party well into the 20th century. The KKK became the political muscle of the democrat party and kept democrats in power. FDR appointed a (former) KKK member to the Supreme Court in 1937

 

[DudleySmith]

Lincoln destroyed the Constitution and he and his successors auctioned off the Federal and most state govts. to bankers and railroads and mining companies, so nothing was saved and the country was destroyed anyway, and has never really recovered, the only 'Union' left was Wall Street, so those Brazilians didn't miss anything.

 

[DudleySmith]

Even if the figure is accurate, 10,000 is hardly the majority of the people who survived the Civil War in the South. The survivors held an abiding hatred for Lincoln's republican party and as such remained solidly loyal to the democrat party well into the 20th century. The KKK became the political muscle of the democrat party and kept democrats in power. FDR appointed a (former) KKK member to the Supreme Court in 1937

The KKK was larger and more influential in the Midwest, California, and New York than it ever was in the Southern states, except maybe Mississippi, especially in the 1920's and 1930's; Strom Thurmond wasn't liked by the Klan, and neither was George Wallace most of the time in the 1950's and 1960's.

 

[DudleySmith]

The KKK became the political muscle of the democrat party and kept democrats in power

Nah; it was immigrants, farmers, and labor who kept Democrats in power; your compulsive FDR bashing is just ridiculous. Most Republicans were just wetting themselves and sniveling for the government to shoot all the uppity proles down for refusing to starve to death.