Immigration, Immigration, and the Democratic Party in the South

Between 1932 and 1948, there is a battle for the soul of the Democratic Party. By 1964, we have a party which still contains white ethnics but also now includes African Americans. And it decreasingly by 1964 includes white supremacists as the defenders of segregation. But your point is that in terms of the big schisms, which we're seeing over the two and a half centuries on race, black, white relations, and on immigration,. what you're now saying is if those are the two big, big, big issues in American politics, then the parties are on completely opposite sides.