In their liberal beliefs, fundamentally conservative

mindful webworker

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Sun 2014 Jan 12, 9:19am

"Vast historical ignorance on display here. The Democrats own the racist policies of the South, Jim Crow laws, etc- lock, stock and barrel..."

Yup. See my #187, okay?

Many a Southern, and (my own experience here) more South-western, Democrat was, in their liberal beliefs, fundamentally conservative and small-government. Republicans weren't all that. The Reaganization, as it were, of the Republican Party here in Okla., going back to before Reagan was Pres, drew the bulk of those old Democrats over to the Republicans, where they've stayed.

Perhaps some other Oklahomans or Texans can confirm or refute my "vast historial ignorance" on this.

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