What is ironic is that the Republican party was primarily founded on the principals of the “Abolitionist” movement (anti-slavery for those who didn’t pay attention in history class). Democrats hated the Republicans for this position. Before 1948 southern Democrats saw their party as the defender of the southern way of life which included racial segregation.
When segregation was outlawed by court order and by the Civil Rights acts of 1964 and 1965, die-hard DEMOCRAT governors Orval Faubus of Arkansas, Lester Maddox of Georgia, and George Wallace of Alabama openly resisted integration to the point that the National Guard had to be called in!
Just some historical facts, but who cares about facts or history…