The political parties NEVER switched.
The Democratic Party is STILL RACIST AS EVER. They are just employing a new tactic.
Meanwhile, GOP ideology is still the same whether they have KKK members or non-KKK members. And since we're on that subject, I bet many of you are completely IGNORANT OF THE KKK. You only associate themselves with the clan of the past.
For some reason it offends you that some white people are only interested in promoting their race. Well if that's the case then this is going to be a hard pill for you to swallow BUT ALL RACES ARE IN IT TO PROMOTE THEMSELVES. Yes, including Blacks, Latinos, and Asians.
Anyhoo, the reason many southern KKK members switched parties (even though political parties didn't change) is because they didn't like the direction of the Democratic Party, which was quickly becoming too socialist. The Dems did this in order to win minority votes. They knew that if they played on the victimization of minorities they would raise stock voters out of them. In essence, they have created a new type of slavery-plantation right here in America. Well, KKK members aren't interested in a communist state. After all, these are the people who tried to break away from the Union, remember? So it would be a direct conflict of their beliefs to have an even bigger government.
But minorities are so damn dumb. Anytime election comes around you can always find them worrying about what it means for their government entitlement programs.
I don't have to be a KKK member to see that is pretty damn tragic and disgusting. Perhaps I'm just too independent, self-sufficient, and ambitious to wait around for a damn government paycheck in the mail. AND, I just don't like money being taken out of my paycheck to feed someone who is able-bodied like me.