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To: koan who wrote (51420)	8/22/2013 2:16:20 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 85487

If your talking about the actually elected and in office politicians, almost all the politicians that supported segregation, were members of the Democratic Party, and either staid as members, or left and then came back. If your talking about "the entire south", its a rather ambiguous concept in this context. If you mean national level politicians in office from the south, then your just wrong. If you mean voters, well its mostly different voters now then it was then. Some young voters at the time (50s and 60s) would still be alive and voting now, but even with the greater propensity to vote by senior citizens they would not be the majority of the electorate when you consider voters born since then, those were already born who moved in, and those who were already born and in the area who were not old enough to vote back then. So there really isn't any thing concrete and specific to point to to support your idea. LBJ said after the 1964 civil rights act: "the dems have just lost the south for a generation". Except that it wasn't true (the south was not reasonably solidly Republican until Reagan, so they didn't "just loose" anything). Also its not very relevant. Had it been true (and it isn't, maybe he said it, but it doesn't reflect reality) and had you been able to demonstrate that its true (and you don't even try), it still wouldn't do much to support your point.