More on the Jim Crow GOP

 I think that a lot of the fundamental principals that Jefferson Davis believed in are very important today to people all across the country, and they apply to the Republican Party. .... After the War between the States, a lot of Southerners identified with the Democrat Party because of the radical Republicans we had at the time, particularly in the Senate. The South was wedded to that party for years and years and years. But we have seen the Republican Party become more conservative and more oriented toward traditional family values, the religious values that we hold dear in the South. And the Democratic party has been going in the other direction. As a result of that, more and more of The South's sons, Jefferson Davis' descendants, direct or indirect, are becoming involved in the Republican Party. The platform we had in Dallas, the 1984 Republican platform, all the ideas we supported there - from tax policy, to foreign policy: from individual rights, to neighborhood security - are things that Jefferson Davis believed in.

   - Trent Lott, Southern Partisan Fall 1984 (via Edward Sebesta)

With the Republican Party - or should I imitate Trent's grammar and call it the "Republic Party"? - channeling the spirit of Jeff Davis, this kind of Democrats is something we can surely do without:  Those 'traditional' Democrats by David Neiwert 06/27/06.  Neiwert writes:

It is, perhaps, symbolic of just how deeply right-wing extremism has invaded the mainstream discourse - primarily through the immigration debate - that now there are people running as anti-immigration Democrats who have backgrounds involving various kinds of far-right extremism.

The most recent of these, via Blog for Arizona, is William "Bill" Johnson, who's running in the Democratic primary in Arizona's 8th congressional district. On the surface, Johnson is just another conservative anti-immigration Democrat, who, as Mike notes, are now being referred to as "traditional Democrats."

These people are "traditional Democrats" only in the sense that, for much of its history, the Democratic Party was in fact the "white man's party" - home of the Ku Klux Klan and a long line of racial demagogues (see, e.g., the notorious Theodore Bilbo), as well as a clearly racist voting base, not just in theSouth but in the rural and suburban Midwest as well. It was not until the 1960s and '70s that the bulk of these racists - politicos and voters alike - largely migrated to the Republican Party under the aegeis of the "Southern trategy."

Those people definitely don't count as Jacksonian Democrats.  Immigrant workers in Northern cities actually were enthusiastic supporters of Old Hickory, back in the day.