Although I will say you'e being disengenous or cowardly if you refuse to acknoledge the racial aspects of the two parties.

(After all, as a black man, most of my white friends are Democrats. And I can't help but suspect part of that is because the white who'd even bother to talk to me are more likely to be democrats than republicans.)

But I do have a few white republicans friends who a racists, maybe one or two who are from the south, so I wouldn't frame it as exclussively.