Look this is a well known fact of political history in the 20th-century US These Southern white people are the most loyal voters in the world, once you've got their loyalty Before the parties flipped positions they would never, ever, EVER vote for the "party of Lincoln"https://twitter.com/nberlat/status/1314803047089033217 …
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That loyalty stuck around even as the parties slowly shifted their position on civil rights, that's why LBJ said the Civil Rights Act was the final blow that would "lose the South for a generation", and even then it was still a process
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Like, that's where the term a "Blue Dog" comes from, a "yellow dog Democrat" who was "left out in the cold" by the Dems' shift to the left
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It always amuses me that Jonah Goldberg owns a dog which is the original "yellow dog" breed.
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