DaleMN I lived in Memphis and worked the states of Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas for 5 years some 15 years after the civil rights movement. I knew I had arrived in the deep south when on my first day I stopped behind a black pickup with a gun hung on the rear window and a bumper sticker that said "I'M proud to be a KKK'er.

As I recollect those folks didn't care if a person was Democrat or Republican but they did pay close attention to a person's religion and whether you were white or black. Needless to say catholics were very low on their hierarchy.

Villager II You seem to be wrestling with being a republican. It seems to me that the party of exclusion is more Democrat than Republican. It is Democrats that place conditions on every aspect of our lives and it is Democrats that operate on a dichotomy.

I opine you folks decide