There can be a lot of inertia in political party, but the Democrats lost their southern stranglehold when they lost the Dixiecrats, and the Dixiecrats' issue was opposition to civil rights.
And it's not so much keeping po' folk down as wanting there to be someone even po' folk can look down on.
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