On Thu, 4 May 2017 14:18:18 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote:

I know you were out shooting squirrels and such when it happened, Timmy,
but in the mid-1960s, the Democratic Party (the liberals) kicked out the
southern racists and that's when those folks began their takeover of the
GOP, a movement that was enabled by Richard Nixon's "southern strategy."

I don't think it was as much that they were kicked out as that they
just left in disgust.