Coffee Addict,
You can do 2 minutes of research on the internet and learn the history of how, why and when this occurred.
The facts are straight forward. See wikipedia.
Is your trolling question intimating that currently republicans are not racist or that the democrats currently are?
Regardless of the what people (voters and politicians) personally think in terms of racism. for decades it has been off-limits for a politician to be openly racist.
This all changed when Trump decided to make openly racist statements (many of them false) and subsequently legislate racist policies.
“total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.”.
” Hey, I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down. And I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down. Thousands of people were cheering.”