The Democrats were the party of slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, the KKK, and opposition to Civil Rights until they realized supporting it would be to their benefit. The current president, Joe Biden, spoke at the funeral of a former Klansman, Democrat Senator Robert C. Byrd. He was also once asked by Chris Wallace how he would appeal to Southern Democrats in a presidential primary, and his answer was: “You don’t know my state. My state was a slave state.”