DEMs were 2 parties in the 80s. In 1981, around fifty conservative southern Democrats in the House of Representatives, the so-called Boll Weevils, played a crucial role in the enactment of President Ronald Reagan’s economic agenda. https://t.co/IWzbbwU7d
@JamesGowen17 @cpugooroo @Kathy4Truth @TimRunsHisMouth You literally copied and pasted Wikipedia. LOL....Southern Dems who were conservatives went for Reagan in the Reagan Revolution. Before then LBJ predicted they would eventually gravitate to the gop. It
Reagan’s Southern Comfort: The “Boll Weevil” Democrats in the “Reagan Revolution” of 1981 https://t.co/53vYWuxiHd
@jamesm65300170 @brigles2 @DrShayPhD "Democrats, who have for decades allowed Southern conservatives to vote against the party without penalty, finally drew the line at Congressman Gramm, who was expected to announce soon whether he would switch to the Rep