So it were the socialists in the Conservative South who passed Jim Crow laws? It's the socialists who carry the Confederate flag and support Trump?
What's with you old boomer cons and dumb rants, I bet you are thick around your neck blocking blood flow to the brain as well, it's the standard pattern.
It was the "Southern Democrats" according to this article.
https://library.law.howard.edu/civilrightshistory/blackrights/jimcrow
Far more of Trump's base flies the Stars and Stripes, than the Confederate flag.
Before and during the Civil war, the Democrat party was in the mainstream for the continuation and extension of slavery. So technically, it was their flag. You never saw Trump hug that flag.
There was a faction within the pre-Civil War, and Civil War era Democrat party that opposed slavery, which in New York was called the Barnburners. They did not prevail within the party to alter its values, which were asserted through the Jim Crow laws as the mainstream Southern Democrats prevailed over so many blacks entering politics after the Civil War.
Were the Southern Democrats socialist, or even communist? Yes if you understand that kind political animal to produce, if not actually be, an authoritarian caste system. The upper caste in the system figures out how to get into power, stay in power, and ideally, profit off the generally high taxes (labor) of the other castes.
At one point, in the 60's, a faction of the Democratic party managed to resurrect the Barnburner mentality enough to help bring Jim Crow to an end. At which point the Democratic party began to tax the entire middle class, both north and south, attempting to maintain a political caste system, by pandering to the black block with promises of, and often the delivery of, special status using funds collected through a more and more socialist system.
Those blacks who fall for this kind of pandering, are said to remain "on the plantation", because of the close connection of the Democratic party and it's legacy in the South, as well the effects of Democrat socialistic policies. Communism is well known for employing class/caste warfare to achieve it's goals. In a largely white country like Russia, it would be the worker class against some other, upper class, for example. In a mixed country like America, the grievance class includes the traditional worker class, but also any other grievance group that could be susceptible to propaganda that aims to produce a majority voting block.
As the Democratic party continues to pander to grievance groups, using it's media arms to enflame grievances, it drifts more and more left toward socialism, and finally communism. You have to understand that communism must be forced. There are only two ways to force anything: physical violence, or deception. The result is a high tax system forcing people to contribute to a corporation (the government) that has a monopoly on violence, deception, and charity fraud. By charity fraud, i mean that the government functions as a very poorly run charity. In an extreme case, the operators of the charity will keep 90% of the funds donated (by force in this case), and distribute maybe 10%. A Democrat politician will have you believe, through deception, that it is the other way round, keeping 10%, and distributing fairly the other 90%. The promise of receiving a portion of that 90% would induce a grievance group to vote for the Democrat party, resulting in a wealthy political class that grifts on grievance politics, and, when in power, grifts on the selling of influence and insider trading.
The Democrat party is racist to the extent that the ruling class within it, systematically uses race baiting to pander to grievance groups to widen it's voter base. It's policies, like slavery, are bad for anyone on, near, or otherwise affected by it's plantation like reach of power. In weakening everybody, the chances are high that an unvarnished, unmasked authoritarian will emerge at the top of the upper class, since democracy is not really it's aim or outcome.