Except for all those elections that went Democratic up to the 90s…Like Carter and Clinton.
And of course, the past couple of elections…
The VRA and CRA opened up a whole new constituency for the democrats, and not all whites were on board with segregation and racism, of course… the solid south wasn’t nearly as solid as people believe and it never was. I really wish we’d stop dismissing how diverse the south is, and stop centering white racists as the “true” southerners who get to dictate to the rest of us what it means to be “southern”.
