Caribbean Cruz is correct....but it was 'conservatives' and former Confederates like Nathan Bedford Forest that began the KKK under the Democratic Party banner, enacted the Jim Crow laws, etc.
Then when LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Acts, these 'conservatives' jumped to the GOP. Soon came Nixon's southern strategy and the 'conservative' south became GOP and remain so today. The GOP are the party of voter suppression and taking away rights fought for decades and are now 100% the Party of Trump, where no word of dissent is allowed and those who do not bow down and pledge total loyalty to Dear Leader Trump, are attacked and quickly dispatched.
The Democratic Party still believes in democracy and the Constitution and the rule of law.