Racism is a fundamental element of conservatism. One would certainly not consider racism to be consistent with the very definition of "liberal," now, would you? Racists are now, and have always been, conservative. When the Democratic Party trended liberal, conservatives, including those who were racist, abandoned the party, migrating to the Republican Party, which welcomed them with open arms, because all it cared about was winning elections. Conservatives, in their desperate effort to obfuscate these obvious truths, ACT as if liberals either do not know or are in denial of the fact that there were ever conservatives in what is now the liberal Party.

It's all they've got.