White Supremacy, the Confederacy, Republicanism, Trumpism, Evangelicalism, whatever name you ascribe does not matter. It’s been the same group of shitbags since the word go. They mostly still control the areas on the coast between and including Texas and Florida, up to Kentucky, and other scattered areas.
They were defeated in the Civil War, but eventually regained control after the Comprise of 1877 ended reconstruction. They began to disenfranchise blacks again by passing Jim Crow Laws, and in the early 20th century began, the daughters of the confederacy had textbooks rewrite history about the war of northern aggression and the lost cause. Newly elected “democrats” begun to erect monuments to confederate soldiers, generals, and politicians that supported them
The Great Depression and WW2 happened which led to a wave of “democrat” Presidents because democrats cared about the poor, which initially included a lot of whites after the Great Depression. They were factory workers, coal miners, etc that made up Unions. JFK was killed, MLK was killed, and LBJ passed the Civil Rights Act in 1965. All of the southern democrats (aka racists) said WTF, and left the Democratic Party and joined the Republicans party.
Roe happened in 1973, and all the crazy evangelicals (who were also poor) left the poor supporting Democrat party and went to the Republican Party. So all the racists and evangelicals started planning their overtake of the Supreme Court and elimination of the Civil Rights Act. However, there was a problem, the Republican Party was originally full of rich business owners that wanted less government, no regulations, no unions, more money. But slowly but surely, the racists and evangelicals took over, with the help of the “fiscally conservative” businessman policies.
Like attacking FCC regulations (government bad, money good), they eliminated the fairness doctrine. This led to Rush Limbaugh spewing hate speech 247 into their ears. Republicans were bought off and granted racist Murdoch a waiver for foreign owned broadcast stations aka Fox News. https://www.csmonitor.com/1995/0728/28014.html
Fox News began to stretch the the word “news”.
Then, they finally had their trigger event. A black person was elected President. Republicans lost their shit and started going off the deep end. This was no longer fringe, they pushed Birther theories on Fox News. The anti-government tea party nut jobs were given spots. Then Trump came along and said the quiet parts outloud. Their base fucking loved it, because their base were racists, and evangelicals, and anti-immigrants, anti-government, And it was their time to shine