It is so rare to have a civil conversation with lefties but I am used to empty arguments being augmented with vindictive insults.  I am glad that you admit your Party's historical mistakes. The Civil Rights Act happened in '64 and according to you, from '65 to the present all the bigots voted Republican.  If that were true why did it take another 20 years until Republicans finally won the majority in the Congress?  Why did we have to experience the incompetence of Carter and lies of Clinton for both of their terms?  It is easy to call an entire portion of the country racist instead of admitting that the Democratic Party has been taken over by a bunch of radical leftist. Democrats spat on soldiers, became "green" and didn't care about the costs to jobs. They made Abortion a litmus test for membership. They mock religious people, take away their gun rights, property rights and deride the military and police, Southerners know a Commie when they see one. They hate Reds, not Blacks.