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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The article wintermute_oregon linked mentions that the switch took place over, well, that it didn't happen immediately. The article I linked said it took place over time:

Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, another 13 Democrats in the South -- one in the Senate and a dozen in the House -- also bolted to the GOP. Most of those came since the Republicans won control of Congress in 1994.

So, yeah, fine.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

https://ninetymilesfromtyranny.blogspot.com/2020/03/three-myths-of-false-leftist-narrative.html

The parties didn't really switch. Voting patterns changed.

The Democrats lost focus of the working class people. They did offer some support to unions but the south isn't very union.

The Republicans pushed the idea you can outgrow your situation and that message went over well in the south.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Quite literally all of those "myths" were addressed by your first link, which as I quoted, said the switch occurred.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago

But when the democrats or the reason they claimed.