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>>I have, in fact, pointed out several times here that the Jim Crow era was created and maintained by Democrats from, as you point out, the 1860's until LBJ passed the civil rights legislation during the 1960's.
>>Since then, the racists in the south have almost exclusively supported Republicans.
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>That's quite true...and the racists in the north have....(I'm sure you see where I'm going with this) :)

Good point.
Northern pols have exploited minorities for decades in the name of equal opportunity, blah, blah.
Still, I have to confess to a bias in favor of finding ways to uplift groups that are struggling to find a place in our culture, however devious the motives of those pols might be.