A quote from 1936 by H.P. Lovecraft.

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61. They were also extremely religious and extremely conservative

What's your point? Trying to tar the whole party with the same brush you're using on southern bigots who were Democrats only because they couldn't bring themselves to join the party of the man who defeated them in the Civil War?

It's no mystery why so many of them flocked over to that party as soon as the ink was dry on the Civil Rights bills. They had been there philosophically all along, voting with them on most issues, earning the name "Boll Weevil Democrats" from their fellow party members who knew they'd try to eat the heart out of any legislation they passed.

There was never anything liberal about southern Democrats. Most were as reactionary as you can possibly imagine and the party in the rest of the country was markedly different.