DOPE:
:rolleyes
You guys need to get over "the Southern Strategy" and take a hard look in the mirror.
This is an example of the casual smears that leftist throw out when they don't understand who it is that they're talking about or what they value, what their concerns are, etc. It's not different from the mentality that leads the coastal idiots to look down on the Midwest as "flyover country".

Dope, that isn't any smear, it's historical reality. The slow shift is very, very real. Look, it's no secret that our country has a racist core to it. Remember the two quotes I cite by Atwater and LBJ to help people understand? That's just the beginning of understanding that. And I was in Panama, CZ as a kid when the major civil rights struggles went on, and missed it. I got such poor history going to four different High Schools I had to explain it to myself. Do you think Tulsa didn't happen? I read history slowly because I don't like it. :)

So we had aristocratic wannabes come up from St Kitts and Barbados to South Carolina. They brought the island slave codes with them, and those slave codes took over by 1750 and spread through the deep south. There were 26 colonies by the time of the revolution and 13 revolted. The other 13 couldn't, they were too dependent on the British military. Why? At the time of the revolution there were 4 whites for every one slave in the USA, in the other 13 colonies the ration was 8 slaves to 1 white.