Historical ignorance is normal because history is not taught. The Democratic Party in the South was the conservative, pro-slavery, MAGA group of fanatics from 1840 until April 1964. They quit the Democratic Party and joined the Republican Party before the 1964 election because LBJ betrayed them and signed the Civil Rights Act. The Democratic Party Secretary of War under President Buchanan was the first president of the Confederate States of America (CSofA). After the Civil War, those confederates, many pardoned, rejoined the Democratic Party as the MAGA conservatives they were then and are now as Republican Party members. Real Southern Republicans today are proud and honorable of their white Southern heritage in the South and Midwest places like Missouri and Oklahoma. The name changed; the beliefs remain the same. You’re welcome. Class dismissed.