BTW, did you know Abraham Lincoln founded the Republican Party?????
So what is your point, Colpy? Republican Party started out as the more liberal, more tolerant party. In the civil war, it was North vs. South. It was also mainly Republicans (north) vs. Democrats (south).
After civil war, the South was fighting civil war for more than a century. That is why South kept voting Democratic. But by 60s, Republican Party had already become party of the right.
I think civil rights legislation was the last hurrah of Republican liberalism. Proportionately, more Republicans voted for the civil rights legislation than did Democrats. All the Southern Democrats voted against the legislation.
Then came Nixon’s Southern strategy. He decided to go after Southern white vote, and push away the black vote. He figured that there were more votes among whites than blacks. From 1968 on, southern whites started voting Republican in presidential election. After that it spread to Senate, House and state elections.
The southern strategy was a success, in that it brought all the Southern rednecks from Democratic Party into Republican Party. Now Republican Party is very much party of the right, there is no room for moderates in the party.
So the fact that Lincoln was a Republican means nothing today. Lincoln himself would probably be disgusted by the direction Republican Party has taken today, the way it has veered sharply to the right.
So what is your point, Colpy? Republican Party started out as the more liberal, more tolerant party. In the civil war, it was North vs. South. It was also mainly Republicans (north) vs. Democrats (south).
After civil war, the South was fighting civil war for more than a century. That is why South kept voting Democratic. But by 60s, Republican Party had already become party of the right.
I think civil rights legislation was the last hurrah of Republican liberalism. Proportionately, more Republicans voted for the civil rights legislation than did Democrats. All the Southern Democrats voted against the legislation.
Then came Nixon’s Southern strategy. He decided to go after Southern white vote, and push away the black vote. He figured that there were more votes among whites than blacks. From 1968 on, southern whites started voting Republican in presidential election. After that it spread to Senate, House and state elections.
The southern strategy was a success, in that it brought all the Southern rednecks from Democratic Party into Republican Party. Now Republican Party is very much party of the right, there is no room for moderates in the party.
So the fact that Lincoln was a Republican means nothing today. Lincoln himself would probably be disgusted by the direction Republican Party has taken today, the way it has veered sharply to the right.