Those Republicans have been dead for 100 years. The GOP has spent the last 50 years recruiting the white racists in the Democratic party after to passage of the Civil Rights Act. LBJ predicted their exodus at the time. The GOP recruitment efforts have been a great success. The KKK and neo-Nazis endorsed Trump. Of course, facts don't matter to Trump voters. They think facts are fake news. It is one of the reasons they don't trust most people with college educations. Facts and their ideology don't align. So they ignore facts.