It is you, Tired, who "deflects", using a niggling difference that makes no difference.  The real point, which you refuse to admit, is that among your list of Dixiecrats who actually ran as Democrats, every one is dead, and the South, which before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, was the "Solid (D) South", now is the "Solid (R) South". As I said, Lee Atwater took advantage of the racist Southern reaction to the CRA by instituting the "Southern Strategy" to lure Southern Democrats to the Republican Party with implied "hints" of racism, using what are now referred to a "dog whistles".  Now, with Trump, this implicit racism is completely out in the open.  If Trump gets 10% of African-American and Latino-American votes, it would be a miracle, and a truly dark miracle indeed.

So it turns out that certain "blanket statements" concerning the deliberate currying of racism by Republican candidates is real and acknowledged, whether you are tired of it or not.  Trump has brought it out in the open.