and Walter Mondale. Virginia Democrats renamed their dinner to the Blue Commonwealth Gala in 2018. The North Carolina Democratic Party renamed their statewide dinner from Jefferson-Jackson to the Unity Dinner in 2017. Another party dinner for western North Carolina Democrats, the Vance-Aycock Dinner (named after former governors Zebulon Vance and Charles Aycock since 1960) was renamed the Western Gala in 2011, due to the fact that Vance was a Confederate veteran and Aycock led the Wilmington insurrection of 1898. The Texas Democratic Party renamed theirs to the Johnson-Jordan Dinner in 2014, honoring president Lyndon B. Johnson and congresswoman Barbara Jordan. In the same way, the Republican party has moved away from "Lincoln Dinners" for the same reason due to the realignment in American politics since the 1960s, especially in the Southern United States where culturally conservative White Southerners now tend to be Republicans, while Black voters now tend to be Democrats. As another example of the switch, the Democratic Obama administration led the effort to remove Andrew Jackson from the United States twenty-dollar bill, while Republican President Donald Trump praised Andrew Jackson as a populist hero who reminds him of himself, and personally delayed the effort. See also Lincoln Dinner History of the Democratic Party (United States) References Democratic Party (United States) Thomas Jefferson Andrew Jackson Annual events in the United States