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With the election of FDR, the conservative democrats across the nation begin the exodus of the democratic party to the republican party. By 1968 when Nixon implements his "southern strategy" to win the presidency, the transformation is almost complete.  In 1980, Reagan begins the process of converting white southerners (a major part of the "Reagan democrats" that sweep him into and keep him in office) into republicans. Whites in the south now begin to register as republicans. The old white democratic south is now republican. Presently in the south, there is still a slight tug of war going on where whites will often vote democratic locally and republican nationally, but that has almost come to an end.  the transformation is now complete.

What we have left is a moderate republican party (Hillary), a populist party (Trump), the "anybodybuttrump" whig (conservatives) party desperately trying to remain relevant with an electorate who has rejected them, Libertarians, and Green