Wally, you need to learn some history.  The party of the KKK would never have nominated B. Obama.    In the 1960s, the old Democratics abandoned their party - over the civil rights bill - and the new Republican Party emerged with its "southern strategy".   The southern states have been pretty solidly Republican ever since.  This Republican switch was a complete repudiation of their laudable abolitionist past.   You really need to brush up on your American history, Wally.  Just sayin'.