Redfish
Diamond Member
They were alsoSouthern Conservatives one and allIke had to send in 82nd Airborne to make Dems stop acting like savages
democrats one and all, the geography doesn't matter. They were democrats and they filibustered the civil rights act.
Southern
Baptists
White
Conservatives
Racists
But democrats first and foremost. They were not all Baptists, or southern, or conservative, some of them were quite liberal on everything but race. Yes, all white, all democrats. Old, rich, white democrats---------------kinda reminds me of Pelosi, Schumer, Reid, Biden, Durben.
Southerners were racist slave holders for two hundred years before the Democratic Party was formed
Their party affiliation changed, their racist beliefs never did
4% of southerners were slave owners. there were more slaves in Illinois than in Alabama. Most southerners at that time were farmers trying to pull a living out of crops and livestock. Try reading some American history, it might enlighten you.