The Southern and Texas Dems were very conservative. Once civil rights measures were implemented and, more specifically, enforced, the defections (aka pary switching) commenced.
I have read the transition was mostly complete by 1990.
My girlfriend's father grew up in West Texas. He's in his mid-sixties. He mentioned over Christmas that a lot of his farming buddies vote Democrat out of habit because that's who they grew up voting for. He spends a lot of his time now at the cotton gin and the bank drinking coffee. We laments having to convince his Democrat-party-affiliated friends that theirs is no longer the small-government/states-rights party that it once was.
Which I think is interesting. I know a lot of us get our party affiliation from our parents. I wonder how many young Democrats vote that way in Texas because their fathers did? Only know are voting for the wrong set of values.
Not to burst a bubble but Texas Democrat used to be the conservative party.
True story.
Ditto the previous comment….
The Southern and Texas Dems were very conservative. Once civil rights measures were implemented and, more specifically, enforced, the defections (aka pary switching) commenced.
I have read the transition was mostly complete by 1990.
My girlfriend's father grew up in West Texas. He's in his mid-sixties. He mentioned over Christmas that a lot of his farming buddies vote Democrat out of habit because that's who they grew up voting for. He spends a lot of his time now at the cotton gin and the bank drinking coffee. We laments having to convince his Democrat-party-affiliated friends that theirs is no longer the small-government/states-rights party that it once was.
Which I think is interesting. I know a lot of us get our party affiliation from our parents. I wonder how many young Democrats vote that way in Texas because their fathers did? Only know are voting for the wrong set of values.
Mind the spelling.