https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Democrats

Thank God for history, factual truth and the anti-slavery Republican Party. Otherwise I fear as a nation we would still be over run by racist ignorant southern white trailer trash making up wild stories and running around in bed sheets. 

Wikipedia "Of the known Dixiecrats, only three switched parties becoming Republicans: Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Mills E. Godwin, Jr".