Electoral Systems

Am I actually reading this correctly but is Texas Democrat!

Different times my friend.

Up until roughly the 1960's the South was known as the Solid South for nearly always voting Democratic.

Why what happened in the 60s?

A North/South shift of the parties, Dems being prominently in the North and Republicans in the South. That and the South finally got over losing the Civil War. Georgia voted Democrat for a century.

Did the ideology of the parties change?

They've been in a perpetual state of back-and-fourth since forever. But yea, every now and then they flop sides or changes their names.

Yes. Sort of. Not really. In a way. It's complicated.

People just flip flopped. Look it up if you are interested.

On a side note Thomas Jefferson would be appalled by the Democratic party that he started as it stands today.

Dems started pushing civil rights. A big no-no in 1960s South.

No, just there was a major inter-party migration during the Great Depression. Irony: The party of slavery elected the first black president.

And the party of Lincoln and Teddy is considering voting for a guy that compares gay sex to man on dog relations. Or a guy who thinks corporations are legally people. Hindsight's a bitch.