Given the longstanding nature of each of the 2 parties, the answer today for frustrated Republicans is not to join the Democrats, who will never be the party that stands for the general interest or the classical liberal, Lockean principles of the American Founding.
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Some of the Dixiecrats who stayed in the D party - the guys Biden was buddy-up with in the 70s - stayed mostly unrepentant, yet won plenty of black votes. Why? Because Democrats are a coalition party. Go back & read some of the NAACP statements in that era.
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Others who stayed in the D tent, like Wallace & Byrd, made a bigger show of 'changing'. Maybe that was sincere, maybe it wasn't, but it tended to coincide with the votes they needed to chase.
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Then there's guys like Strom Thurmond, who switched parties. Thurmond was, as a D, one of the nation's loudest pro-segregation voices. As an R, he mostly abandoned the kind of pro-segregation rhetoric & stances he used as a D. But neither did he do a Wallace-style apologia.
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