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I see your point and agree.
I guess it's because I became politically aware during the Nixon years,
when Republican and Democratic party conventions here were nationally televised,
and you saw the sausage being made from beginning to end.
At that time there were the "Dixie Democrates"
and there were some (actual) moderate Republicans,
so polarization wasn't so extreme, except as it was forming
over the Viet Nam war and civil rights.
But that's when the Dixie Democrates moved into,
and the moderates were pushed out of the Republican party,
and when the Repubican's "Southern Strategy" began.
Because they were/are a minority party, this was also when
the Repubicans began their efforts at blocking voter access
and gerrymandering in the extreme.
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