Local demographics made for different alliances

"Republican party backed civil rights in greater numbers than the Democrats and they did so because that is who we are." - Sven 10077

As I say, local demographics made for different alliances in some places.

It's kind-of like, today we see the thug unions destroying honest businesses, a reversal of the original opposition to thug businesses via employee collective bargaining. Communist infiltrators and cultural and media exaggeration of Evil Corporations notwithstanding. Or the shift in "liberation" movements from enfranchisement and rights to entitlement and privilege.