AHC: Make the South as Progressive as possible

In honor of you-know-who Day, make the South as progressive as possible with a POD after 1964 in terms of social progress and economic progress. How you do this is your choice, but you are not allowed to make major demographic changes from OTL to the South.
 
Economic is easy, just have the Democrats remain socially conservative and economically liberal. Socially is harder. I believe it would require a pre-1900 POD/
 
Whilst I do have quite a few ideas for making the South more progressive (IMO it could have easily become a left-wing stronghold in American politics), most of what have in mind is before this PoD (ideally start in the 1920s or earlier). However, there are a few things that might help:


  • Have Hoover ousted from the FBI, along with his cronies, and replaced with a more liberal figure much less paranoid about Communism, who focuses their efforts against the Mafia and the KKK. This will make things a lot easier for left-wing groups to operate. Kennedy had considered dismissing him, but thought that the political ramifications would have been too high. Have LBJ, or possibly an alternative successor, decide that Hoover is more trouble than he's worth.
  • Significant labour reforms that makes it easier for workers to unionise, ideally repealing the Taft-Hartley Act.
  • Have the AFL-CIO try a second attempt at Operation Dixie that is more successful in unionising the South.
  • Prevent the Republicans from adopting the Southern Strategy, whilst at the same time keeping the Democrats fairly left-wing. Maybe getting Stassen or Rockefeller nominated as the Republican candidate in 68 (although just how you do that is anyone's guess). Maybe have a third party rise up that tries to appeal to the racist white conservative element, whilst the Democrats and Republicans focus on the middle ground. As the Civil Rights movement progresses without major opposition from the political mainstream extreme social and political conservatism becomes seen as an unwinnable political position.
  • Have Elvis Presley become an outspoken supporter of the Civil Rights Movement, serving as a major role-model for white Christian southern liberalism.
 
Alternatively, somehow avoid the Great Migration and cause African-Americans to be in the majority by today, which may in itself cause a White exodus.
 
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