Meanwhile, best get your Republican Horse and bedsheets before the price rise....
Minor advise: geta good stiff leather hat cone. a man looks likes dopey the white guy when the rain soaks his cardboard.
'Don't ask who I know this...
Now weren't those Southern Boys pictured above, good old Democrats. Voted the straight party ticket for generations, yes they did.
Right up to about 48 when civil rights was on Truman's platform.
Politics of the Southern United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The South becomes Republican
For nearly a century after Reconstruction, the white South identified with the Democratic Party. The Democrats' lock on power was so strong the region was called the Solid South, although the Republicans controlled parts of the Appalachian mountains and they competed for statewide office in the border states. Before 1948, southern Democrats believed that their party, with its respect for states' rights and appreciation of traditional southern values, was the defender of the southern way of life. Southern Democrats warned against aggressive designs on the part of Northern liberals and Republicans and civil rights activists whom they denounced as "outside agitators."
The adoption of the strong civil rights plank by the 1948 convention and the integration of the armed forces by President Harry S. Truman's Executive Order 9981, which provided for equal treatment and opportunity for African-American servicemen, drove a wedge between the northern and southern branches of the party.
With the presidency of John F. Kennedy the Democratic Party began to embrace the civil rights movement, and its lock on the South was irretrievably broken. Upon signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson prophesied, "We have lost the South for a generation."[10]
