jimntx
Veteran
No, that is not an accurate description of what happened. What happened was that the racist Democrats simply switched their party affiliations when the Republican Party promised to bring back "states' rights" (code word for legal segregation) when they got in power. (They didn't keep that promise, but Alabama segregationists haven't given up hope.) Until that happened, there were no Republicans in Alabama for all practical purposes. They were mad at the Republicans because that was the party of Abraham Lincoln and his destruction of the Southern "way of life" if you know what I mean. Note the common thread that anger determined party affiliation.They were so mad, all those racist democrats moved away from the state, leaving it mostly republican today.