Both parties changed. Both parties moved to the left. The GOP didn’t change as much as the Democrats did. The Democrats ran away from the kind of conservatism that gave us the Klan. The Klan found themselves more closely aligned with the unchanging GOP than it did with the left-moving Democrats.
Both parties changed. Both parties moved to the left. The GOP didn’t change as much as the Democrats did. The Democrats ran away from the kind of conservatism that gave us the Klan. The Klan found themselves more closely aligned with the unchanging GOP than it did with the left-moving Democrats.