How did the South go from being overwhelmingly Democratic to being Republican?

>>17782392 (OP)
Constant betrayals by Democratic leadership. Starts with FDR.

>>17782392 (OP)
the republicans became more racist

>>17782433
I wish

The republicans in 1913 amended the US constitution to allow for them to federalize congress in what can only be assumed was a bid to spread their influence federally down to the state level. What actually ended up happening was the democrat party took control of the US for 60 years. At the end of this 60 year period you see the democrat party falter, especially in the south. While the republicans left a lasting stain of a legacy on the US in the 19th century, the democrats ruined the 20th century. Their blind progressivism mirrored the fanatic republicans that called for US imperialism in the 19th century. They forced the freedom loving conservatives from their party and into the hands of the nationalists. So now it's just immigrants vs nationalists

The dudeweed crowd took over the Democrat Party.

>>17782392 (OP)
Racism/Opposition to Civil Rights was just a factor out of many.
On the main aspects of the solid is that it was a de-facto One Party State where every office was occupied by the state democratic party who ran political machines to keep themselves entrenched in power, so even if a white voter wanted to vote republican, his vote wouldnt matter since it was all rigged. However, after WW2, there began to be a large number of political reform movements from both liberal and conservatives that sought to dismantle such machines, and so slowly, the unbroken hold of the Dixiecrats began to shatter, along with the New Deal Coalition that had kept them allied with the Northern Democrats. Once the South started having competitive elections, they began voting Republican, both out of said opposition to civil rights, but also out of rejection to the old Party. Eventually, the cohort of voters that used to vote democrat died out, and the newer generations identified more with the Republicans, culminating in the Republican revolution of the 90s.

>>17782447
The Solid South really began in the 1890s when opposition to the Democrat Party was clamped down on.

>>17782392 (OP)
After the civil rights act of 1964. Look at the presidential elections maps of 1960 and 64. Robert Caro’s biographies of LBJ often dive into the politics from Civil war to the 1960s. The parties often had different sections that fought amongst each other over specific issues.

People obsess over this but never talk about how New England used to be very Republican, often among the few holdouts in those FDR landslide elections. There’s still some of that Live Free or Die Yankee conservatism but today it’s libtard central, mostly due to the influx of outsiders. Outsiders helped flip the south as well—northern business types who were racial moderates and country club conservatives, fed up with Senator Billy Bob and his corrupt cronies.

The civil rights movement happened.

>>17782392 (OP)

The Democratic Party became flooded with faggots, the Republican Party, which had basically been borderline irrelevant since Hoover, got reinvigorated by Richard Nixon.

>>17782567
It was similar to the solid south in that it was ran by political machines by the Boston Brahmins who would always vote republican. The famous Rockerfeller Republicans like Nelson Rockefeller and Cabot Lodge were part of said elite with a lot of pedigree behind their names.
Part of the Conservative revolution of Goldwater was the rejection of said elitist eastern stablishment.

>>17782392 (OP)
Over the course of 20th century, and the tail end of the 19th, the Democrats built a strong liberal wing in the northern cities, particularly amongst immigrants and union workers.
This contingent of the party was not racist, and they also became more and more powerful over time. Alienating the south.
Meanwhile the Republicans began to drop racial equality from their rhetoric and agenda in no small part to win elections in the south.

Over the course of decades this meant that slowly more white southerners were voting for the GOP, and black people abandoned the GOP for the Democrats.
This was a slow process, the old Southern wing of the Democrats wasn't fully phased out until the 2000s.

>>17782392 (OP)
coastal dems tried to control everything at the federal level and abandoned workers. republicans were fine with letting states decide most issues which benefits southern states due to their lower populations

>>17782447
a higher percent of republicans voted for the civil rights laws than dems. it's because the GOP moved to a more states rights/states first view and dems moved to a more federalist view.
federalism always hurts the southern states

>>17782472
>>17782602
midwit take

>>17783785
>and dems moved to a more federalist view.
That began as early as Wilson. Yet even prior to that the Republican Party was controlled heavily by business interests who opposed any kind of government regulation on private enterprise.

>>17783780
>republicans were fine with letting states decide most issues which

have you even been following the news since January 20? at this point Democrat controlled California is defending states rights and federalism against Trump's centralized dictatorship.

>>17782392 (OP)
Dems started supporting the ex-slaves.

>>17783899
>>17783785
>and Dems moved to a more federalist view
Bro the South voted like 90% for FDR the godfather of centralized expansion of Federal power.

>>17783899
>Yet even prior to that the Republican Party was controlled heavily by business interests who opposed any kind of government regulation on private enterprise.
Teddy Roosevelt literally fucked JP morgan and stole his trains and created the FDA
>>17783901
the constitution is explicitly clear. the federal government has the sole power over naturalization laws and the federal government can call up the militia to enforce the law.
the california governor is in active rebellion and he should be arrested and we California should be general shermaned

>>17783931
Roosevelt was an outlier in the GOP of his day which was mostly controlled by conservative standpatters.

>>17783908
because he was a democrat and they were still mad about lincoln
>>17783934
Taft broke up standard oil and US steel

In such fairness the South of FDR's day was not a hivemind. There were standpatters who opposed any kind of government centralization but there were also quite a few socialists and supporters of welfare state policies there, the distinction being that they believed said welfare state should be exclusively for white people.

>>17783951
17th amendment made state senators elected by the national party rather than state meaning a lot of southern leaders were plants by the north which was FDR's explicit goal

>>17784065
the 17th amendment is dumb but it was mooted by renyolds v sims anyway. we went from having equal representation in state governments and the senate to city cucks controlling both

>>17782429
>NO YOU CANT JUST MAKE US THE RICHEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD WITH A COMFORTABLE MIDDLE CLASS
>WE NEED JOBS SHIPPED TO INDIA AND CHINA
>STOP FUNDING SOCIAL SECURITY I WANT TO WAGIE WAGIE SLAVE ALL DAY

>>17784805
FDR didn't do shit to help the middle class and dems were the ones who shipped jobs to india.
bombing all the factories in yurop and asia is what made the US prosperous, faggot

Ideological split among the two parties. The Republican party corralled the entirety of conservatism in America. The South was and still is conservative. Race certainly played a role but within the larger context.

>>17782392 (OP)
The traditional Southern base of the Democrats were slowly pushed aside as the party became geared more and more to traditionally "Northern" ideas. FDR and Truman got the ball rolling in that regard, and LBJ gave a lot of the southerners the final push to move away from the party.

Democrats used to be the party that looked out for Southern interests, now there is no such party, and Southerners want nothing more than to die and be dissolved into Yankeeland, so naturally they vote for the race blind civic nationalist party.

>>17782606
>anne fag likes nixon
Interesting