The term Bourbon Democrats refers to late 19th-century white supremacist Southern Democrats who modeled their desire for an aristocracy on the European Bourbon dynasty.

“So the um the Democrats in 1871, the unreconstructed Southern Democrats, begin to talk about and to celebrate the idea of preserving this aristocracy in the American South that has momentarily in their minds been replaced by these workers. And so they start to identify with this this old South, this”