JtS, that is crap. The Southern Democrats, thankfully, are mostly gone.

The new South is far more Christian, the backbone of the Republican Party. They are for equal opportunity for all Americans because it is the right thing to do. The Republicans were founded as a coalition of groups with varied agendas but all had one goal in common: end slavery. Period.

The allegiances were re-drawn by Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1932 election and remain pretty much what we see today.