I have live through the civil rights fight of the 1960s and the effects of Nixon's Southern Strategy on the racists not only in the South but also everywhere else in the US. That was when I realized that racism is deeply embedded in the psyche of a lot of white people in the country and that those white people will not willingly abandon the sense of superiority they feel over those "others". The Republicans Party, after having welcomed the Dixiecrats, decided from that point on to follow a more racist path. They replaced the Democratic Party as the home of racists and have railed continually against being politically correct that stifled hate speech.