Did the Democrats and Republicans Switch Parties? Here's Why I Don't Care - Jody Bruchon
Channel: Jody Bruchon
Date: 2020-10-23

Everyone has been told that the Democrats and Republicans "swapped" in the past. This swap disconnects current Democrats from a history of racism in which Southern Democrats were the party of the KKK, Jim Crow laws, and voted overwhelmingly against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This swap also connects that racist past to the Republicans instead. If you're a Democrat, this is awfully convenient. If you're a Republican, this is awfully inconvenient. The problem is that the waters have been muddied pretty hard by now and it's too complex of an issue to realistically resolve. How "swapping" is defined plats a huge role in which side "wins" the argument; Democrats point to Presidential wins by Southern states in and shortly after the 1960s, but Republicans point to various points in history surrounding the 1960s and the fact that the only Democrat representative that actually changed parties over the Civil Rights Act was Strom Thurman. In my independent research, I found that the governors in Southern states remained very largely Democrats all the way into the 1990s, 25+ years after the Civil Rights era and the uproar of desegregation...which is really, really weird if the parties swapped.

Here's the thing, though, and it's a big thing: if you're a pragmatic person, you don't give a flying flip about which party was the Klan's preference 90 years ago or which party voted against desegregation in 1964. All the people involved in those things are currently either super old or (more often) just plain dead. Parties are composed of individuals. People change over time and parties change as the people who affiliate themselves with those parties change. What matters is today, not 60-90 years ago. I'm not voting for or against George Wallace; I'm voting for or against Donald Trump or Joe Biden or Jo Jorgensen, not to mention all the senators and representatives down the line that arguably have more power than the President of the United States ever can.

tl;dr: The party switch looks like a myth, but ultimately...no one should care.

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