A few of the news people who analyzed the results of Super Tuesday questioned how the party of Lincoln had become so enamored with Donald Trump. A quick look into recent history can easily answer that question.

In 1948 the Democratic Party Convention declared the party was, “... continuing its efforts to eradicate all racial, religious and economic discrimination.” That statement outraged the segregationist Governor of South Carolina, Strom Thurmond, and he walked out of the convention. Thurmond formed a breakaway group of Democrats that he called the States’ Rights Democratic Party before they became known as the Dixiecrats. Thurmond ran against Truman in the 1948 election and he won in several states that had been in the Confederacy.

In 1964 Thurmond switched parties from segregationist Democrat to Republican to back the segregationist candidate, Barry Goldwater, and both men fought against the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

In a May 31,1968 meeting with Thurmond and some other southern Republicans, Nixon promised to greatly imped integration efforts and the Republican Southern Electoral Strategy was born, to increase support among white southerners by becoming the party of discrimination. Violator of the Fair Housing Act and Birther liar, Donald Trump, is not the darling of Lincoln’s Republican Party, he is the leader of the Thurmond-Nixon Southern Strategy Republican Party.