This is not a recent occurrence which just sprung up from the blue out of nowhere. It's been building sine the end of the Civil War. This is the original sin of Slavery which continues to damage the nation upon which it was built, root and branch. Institutionalized racism, misogyny, homophobia, and white Christian separatism as party platform. No matter how "conservative" Republicans claimed to be, The Southern Strategy was the core value and singular driving force for the past 60 years. MAGA isn't a symptom, it's result. These are " The South Will Rise Again" assholes, rising, once again.