Ok let's do a quick dive into the origins of the modern GOP. Everything I am about to post is very easily found by doing simple google searches, with search words like John Birch Society origins/founders, dixiecrats, and paleoconservatism. you can verify what i am posting there.

Let's start with the origins of the modern day GOP. In 1948 civil rights issues revealed philosophical differences between northern & southern democrats, like never before. This is when the move of southern states moved from solid dem to solid republican. Dixiecrats & the

southern strategy was born. At the 1948 DNC convention a group of northern dems led by Hubert Humphrey proposed some controversial civil rights planks of racial integration & reversal of Jim Crow laws. Southern dems were dismayed to say the least.