So when modern Christians:
• ignore 95% of Old Testament law
• weaponize 1–2 verses against gay people
• while violating explicit New Testament commands about judgment and mercy
They’re doing the exact thing the New Testament condemns.

Before the 1960s
• The Democratic Party was dominated by the “Solid South.” These were conservative, segregationist politicians who defended Jim Crow laws and opposed civil-rights protections.

• The Republican Party was still carrying some of the Lincoln legacy — more northern, business-oriented, but formally the party of Reconstruction and (on paper) civil rights.

The turning point
• The New Deal (1930s–40s) pulled working-class and Black voters toward Democrats because of economic relief, even though southern segregationists were still powerful inside the party.

• The Civil Rights era (1950s–60s) finally broke the coalition. When Democratic presidents Truman, Kennedy, and especially Johnson signed desegregation and voting-rights laws, many white southern Democrats defected.

late 1960s–80s): Republican strategists such as Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, and later Ronald Reagan intentionally courted those disaffected white southern voters by appealing to “states’ rights,” “law and order,” and opposition to busing. It was coded language for maintaining racial hierarchy

After the switch
• The names stayed the same, but the ideological bases traded places:
• The modern Democratic Party aligns with the post-1960s civil-rights, multiracial, urban, and socially progressive coalition.