Bill: You've been reading too many of Don Richey's letters in the Guard.  You need to study the history of race relations in America.  Perhaps read a bit about the Civil Rights Movement. Read a little about the Civil Rights Act and the "great migration" of racists away from the Democratic Party to the Dixiecrats, the American Independent Party and finally finding a comfortable home in today's Republican Party.  Today's GOP is hardly the "party of Lincoln" and the Democratic Party is not the Democratic Party of post-Reconstruction and the Jim Crow era.  

Race and politics in America is a fascinating topic.  We're certainly seeing its impact today with the white supremacist/white nationalist movement and Donald Trump's support for them.  BTW: those white supremacists/white nationalists are NOT leftists...quite the contrary, they are far right-wing racists.  the "Leftists" are the folks opposing them....I hope this helps address your apparent confusion.  Gary Crum