"The national Democrats abandoned the South and turned on the region with federal laws in order to make it bow to "political correctness" to appease New England and West Coast Democrats."
I wonder if you really mean to imply that the voting rights and de-segregation laws were really nothing more than mere sops of "political correctness" imposed upon the south to appease NE and WC Democrats? Do you really mean to suggest there was no issues of fundamental civic justice in the civil rights laws of the 60's, but they were simply "political correctness" ?
Was George Wallace only standing in the schoolhouse door opposing "political correctnes"?
Was that all that it was really about, the Selma marches, the Pettis bridge, the church bombings, the lunch counter sit-ins, the voter registration drives (and the murders of the registration workers), the bus boycotts? Only "political correctness"?
To me it was these issues and Lyndon Johnson's Civil Rights bills that changed the south from Democrat to Republican. Maybe I am wrong, what specific issues were you thinking of in your paragraph above? The ones that were only to appeae Democrats?