Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond used to be Democrats and they switched parties eventually. Today's southern Democrats like Mary Landrieu and Gene Taylor aren't liberal or progressive on the whole by any stretch of the imagination. But they are all take populist stances on certain issues when their constituents want it, whereas Republicans always vote in the interests of the wealthy 100% of the time and keep their constituents supporting them by rallying against gay marraige, abortion, and black people.
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