Limbaugh: Moore was a Democrat at time of sexual misconduct allegations

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9. Of course he was. At the local level the South was blue then.

You just didn't run for any local office in the South as a Republican in the South in the 70s. The Democratic primary was the big battle and the Republican candidate, if one even ran, almost always lost.

That's when voting blue at the bottom of the ticket and red at the top happened frequently in the South, and did pretty much until the Tea Party movement.

Edit to add: Obviously the "blue" shade in the South then was awfully pale. Not defending that era's Southern Democrats, many of whom were atrocious and would have, as Moore did, left the party as things changed.