Lincoln, Jim Crow and the Southern Strategy

The advent of upcoming major elections always revives two race-based conversations:

So the debate alway goes like this:

Conservative: Blacks vote for Democrats because they are the party of handouts.

GOP Party Leaders: Blacks are stupid for supporting Democrats, because they are the "party of Jim Crow" while we are the "party of Lincoln"

Both of these theories about why blacks shouldn't support the Democratic Party, rely ignore two basics facts:

After the Civil War and Secession, the main reason white Southern voters were overwhelming initially attracted to the Democratic Party, for the same reason because it had the "Party of Jim Crow" 

Secession and allowed the proliferation of Jim Crow laws. Conversely, the GOP's status as the "Party of Lincoln," the man who ended slavery, made it attractive to the majority of  new black voters. 

Democratic blacks  GOP wa "Party of Lincoln" The people who made the Democratic the "Party of Jim Crow" When the Democrats effectively ended Jim Crows laws, the Southern Democrats felt bereft Dixiecrats left the "Party southerners who embraced The GOP Don't they know 

1) Conservatives justifying their disdain for blacks for being blindly loyal to the Democratic Party

1) Prior to the Civil Rights Movement, racist Southerners were aligned with that Democratic Party (mostly because it was/is the party most aligned with working class values). When Northern Democrats realized that protecting EVERYBODY's civil rights was compatible with the rest of there working class platform, racist white Southern Democrats did a Tea Party move and form the Southern couldn't  racism couldn't see beyond During the 1950s an