What few people seem to realize today is before civil rights, the GOP in most of the South ranked just above communism in popularity. When northern democrats broke with southern democrats in support of integration and voting rights, and welfare programs, the solid Democratic South was gone for good. Kicking the feds in the ass was on the agenda and what better place to be than the GOP, the party their dads and granddads hated with a passion..The far right began Identify Politics with reservations and segregation.
It was the Democrat Party who was for segregation. A larger majority of Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act than did Democrats. History proves you are wrong.
Won't work. The conservatives in the South, dem and pub, opposed black civil rights. The problem was culture and geography not party.
The southern pubs in Congress in 1964 vote 'no' while some of the southern dems voted 'yes'.
Tough to be you and not know history.