Comments on Insomnia: The Southern Strategy Edition

I heard that joke two days ago. At my school:
The University of the South. And people still believe it, except you know, the other way around.

Depending on how old it is, I've got to wonder if that joke refers Lincoln and how his republican party (my how they've changed!) ended slavery, which took all of those "horses" away from the south.

and now, white southerners are all republicans. it all works out.

Amusing ... it just doesn't happen to apply anymore, but still amusing.

I hope this isn't meant to set us up for a wave of other posts having to do with the Old South when what we need to do as a community is look ahead.

Coming from a long line of Southern Yellow-Dog Democrats, @2 has it exactly right. My Grandfather was a Democrat because Lincoln and the Republican party were responsible for Reconstruction and us losing that "War of Southern Independence". In the 1950 & 1960s, Democrats in the south were exactly like the Republicans in the south are today.