I read your post, pretending there were two democrat parties in an attempt to explain away the Jewish participation in the party of Jim Crow and the KKK. It is just not true.
It just is true.
In the 100 years between the Fire Eaters and the Conservative Coalition, the Democratic Party was a weak association between North and South.
Jewish support of Democrats closely follows the party's historic support of separation between church and state - first espoused by the Jeffersonian Democrats. When Jews switched to the party of Lincoln, it was due in part opposition to the "peculiar institution" and part denunciation of anti-Semitism. That lasted until Taft destroyed the party's Jewish vote with his support of Russian trade. At the same time 20th century Republicans restricted Jewish immigration and refused to pass anti-discrimination laws.
To suggest that Jews supported the anti-Semitic KKK and Jim Crow elements of the Democratic Party in the South is totally unbelievable. Southern Jews supported the northern Democratic candidates for president (e.g. Woodrow Wilson) whom also supported the interests of the entire American Jewish population as a whole, not the local Southern Democrats whom wished to suppress them.










