I have to disagree that the problem long term is a particular party. Before alerting on me, let me explain.
The post 1865 Democratic Party was a deeply or heavily racist party up until 1932 when it began to morph toward the party that the Democratic Party is today. Southern racists and their northern allies still had a hard grip on the party until Hubert Himphrey and other early progressives began to challenge them, resulting in the division's seen at the 1948 Democratic Party Convention. Southern racists began to peel away from the party looking for a refuge, but could not fully find that with the old Republican Party, which was pro business but not yet pro segregation. Then along came the Civil Rights Act and southern racists went nuts. The Republican Party saw that Blacjs were going more Democratic Party, so it started to welcome in southern politicians. Then came Barry Goldwater in 1965 with his very overt appeal to harsh racial feelings, he performed well in the South and some places in the West. Richard Nixon and his people saw how well Goldwater did in the South and devised the "Southern Strategy" to take advantage of White southerners' hatreds (not all southerners, but a buttload of them). With the southern strategy, the Republican Party went full tilt racist, while the Democratic Party continued to move toward equality for everyone. Then came other issues like women's rights, LGBTQ rights and the nation started betting browner as racial diversity increased. The Democratic Party embraced the change and welcomed in those on the outside, the Republican Party entrenched more around it's mostly White, intolerant base. Then came more Muslims in the country, and we come to where we are today.
This is the point that I want to make. The hardcore racist, mysogonist, anti immigrant, Islamophobic base of the Republican Party REALLY does not care which party does it's bidding as long as it can win elections with whatever party it is aligned with. I don't remotely believe that the Democratic Party will ever again do their bidding. I also believe that the majority of the country is drifting away from them toward more freedoms. What the haters will do is attach themselves to the most popular movement, we are seeing that with racists loving an obstensively progressive message that is being espoused by some people (not necessarily politicians, they can be writers, news people, businesspeople). The haters will latch themselves to whatever wins and can maintain influence in the country's affairs for them.
I have travelled to a lot of places and now several parts of the country well. One thing that I notice in my republican majority county is the number of interacial children, yesterday I was out and noticed around five families, three of them were interacial families. I really do not see that anywhere else in the country by casual observation when in a predominantly White part of my town going about my business. My part of the South is changing, we are getting more and more racially blended families, in a cludgy way Mark Meadows hit on that by his claim that he has interacial nephews and nieces to ward off being called a racist (he is). At some point places like my county will be vastly different in a positive way, that will leave the racists and haters scurrying for another refuge. So who knows where they will find it. They could find it with the stinking remnants of the Republican Party, or they may find it with people (and they won't necessarily be conservative democrats) that split off from our party. AOC is right on what the cancers are, but they can morp into places where we least suspect them to go.
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Have a wonderful day George.
