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Saturday, October 23rd, 2004 05:32 pm (UTC)
As correctly pointed out above, Democrats and Southern Democrats are two different things entirely. Republicans used to be the yankee party, and no self-respecting southerner would vote for them. They had their own special breed of Democrat, who were more right-wing than Pat Buchanan.
See also yellow dog democrats and "Dixiecrats" (Ultimately, the Dixiecrat movement paved the way for the rise of the modern Republican Party in the South. Many former Dixiecrat supporters eventually became Republicans, as was highlighted by Strom Thurmond's conversion in the 1960s).