The Southern Dems (or "Dixiecrats") left the Democrat party and joined the GOP when my older Brother was a child after the Northern Democrats passed the Civil Rights Act. The maga movement is nothing more than the Suth trying to rise again. But you are half-correct...all the racist Southerners joined the GOP, it was just long before Obama came around. They are now even more happy as magats. They LOVE to HATE and they love their cult leader for making it okay to openly hate their fellow Americans again.