[Gwen-DeFortuna]

I am not from the south and I am not African American, but I recently took a two-year long history course on Race Relations in the US and this is my recollection of one reason this may be so: The South was a Democratic stronghold. The called it the Solid South. From Thomas Jefferson to Robert E. Lee, Democratic Party was synonymous with the status quo of privilege. http://homepages.wmich.edu/~corder/pls314c6.html I gather that the Democratic party was once the party of an elite class of land owners (and slave owners), while Republican party was more industrial and working class at the time of the Civil War. I believe that many Black men, upon gaining the vote, chose the Democratic party for the reason anyone would choose, to ally themselves with power they knew, rather than oppose it. The evolution of the party since then is another story, but it has been shown that most people register in the same political party that their parents did.

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Name : Gwen-DeFortuna, Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Pagan, Age : 39, City : San Francisco, State : CA, Country : United States, Occupation : clerical specialist, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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