I know about the southern strategy. But the fact remains that after Robert Byrd started his own KKK chapter and recruited 150 of his friends and family members to join, he later got elected to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat. And if he hadn't died, he would still be in office as a Democrat. Hillary Clinton even referred to him as her good friend and mentor. Byrd never changed his party affiliation to Republican.

Democrat Ralph Northam said it was indeed him in a racist photograph from college, but he wasn't sure if he was the guy in the KKK outfit, or the guy in blackface. And he never changed his affiliation to Republican either.

Joe Biden never changed his affiliation to Republican after creating his racist crime bill.

Democrats are also the party that thinks black people are too stupid to get into college without special racial preferences, despite the fact that there are a lot of very intelligent, very bright black people who did very, very well in high school, and who are perfectly capable of getting into college based 100% on merit.