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Here is my current theory about why Democrats are now the anti-racism party.
Racism was common after the Civil War, especially in the south. There was a lot of resentment about having lost the war and not being able to own slaves. The typical ugly racist was a rural southerner, a "redneck."
The racist redneck is the type of person that educated well-off Democrats despise the most. They blame redneck ignorance and hatred for most of this country's troubles.
That was then, and now is another time. Most southern rednecks, and rural people in general, are not racists anymore and most do not belong to the KKK.
But educated Democrats still hate the anti-science bible believers, the homo-haters, etc.
So I think it's really hatred of the "rednecks," more than love of blacks, that motivates white Democrats to be anti-racists.
Hate is always a bigger motivator than love, especially in politics. It's hard to really love people you don't know and have little in common with.
Anyone who doesn't conform to the leftist ideology is a racist.