What turned southerners into republicans and northerners into democrats?

Question

first let me say im not really political and english isnt really my first language so if i say something off the wall or that doesnt make sense tell me because i might not fully understand this whole political spectrum. lol

I always hear that people blame democrats for being racist because it was the southerners who were democrats in the past.
but times have changed, and so many southerners are the conservative republicans and the northerners are typically more liberal and democrat. Almost everyone i know here in SC is conservative republican.
The VALUES of the people in the local area are the same values, but the it's just the political parties that switched.

This means it's just silly that people can judge today's democrats based on democrats in the slavery times, because the meaning of democrat and republican was different to people back then. Back then, it was typically the dems that were racist, because being dem was a different meaning to people, but now for some reason it's the dems who are known for being open minded and understanding of everyone and not focusing soo much on religion.

I'm not really political person but I don't get this on why southerners are now rep and northerners are now dem? and why change the parties around if you still have the same values, and then blame people, when the meaning is changed in people's mind?

Answer 1

Northerners typically value education and creativity (i.e. change).



Southerners value religious morals and things not changing.



And the ideologies of both parties have changed. Democrats used to be like the conservatives today, and Republicans were like liberals.

Answer 2

Change of opinion.

Answer 3

Belief in the country and the Constitution.



Just as it may be disingenuous to ascribe to today's Democrats the characteristics of yesteryear's Southern Democrats, so, too is it equally disingenuous to ascribe to today's conservatives the characteristics of yesteryear's conservatives who had different sets of beliefs.



The sea-change really started with the 1968 Democratic Party convention in Chicago and the increasing shift of the Democratic Party towards the left after that.



Southerners who proudly sent their sons to fight for America witnessed a Democratic Party growing increasingly hostile to their children who sacrificed for the country, to come home and be called murderers and spat on by proud liberal Democrats.



Even when they lost the Civil War, they were not treated like that. They expected (and DESERVED) better from their fellow countrymen; they were betrayed by the Democrats.



That is but one of many examples of how the traditional American values embraced by people in the South (and I'm not talking Dixie Democrat institutional racism) were assaulted and assailed by the increasingly strident leftists in the Democratic Party.

Answer 4

the northern unions bought the Dimocratc party.

Answer 5

Hmm! KKK is the democrap party - easy huh?

Answer 6

Democrats don't want to take responsibility for the KKK

Answer 7

Inbreeding