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The Republicans were the anti slave Lincoln party of the Civil War.
The Democrats were split between the northern and southern dems. The so. dems split of and became the confederacy.
During the civil rights movement and LBJ passing the civil rights bill, the So. Dems got pissed at the dems and shiflted to the Reps.
So yes, historically the So. Dems were the original slavers but have shifted their influence to the Reps.
A rose is a rose ....
Smells more like Bullshit.
Southern Democrats - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Southern Democrats are members of the U.S. Democratic Party who reside in the American South. In the 19th century, they were the definitive pro-slavery wing of the party, opposed to both the anti-slavery Republicans (GOP) and the more liberal Northern Democrats.
Eventually "Redemption" was finalized in the Compromise of 1877 and the Redeemers gained control throughout the South. As the New Deal began to move Democrats as a whole to the left (at least economically), Southern Democrats largely stayed as conservative as they had always been, with some even breaking off to form farther right-wing splinters like the Dixiecrats. After the Civil Rights Movement successfully challenged the Jim Crow laws and other forms of institutionalized racism, and after the Democrats as a whole came to symbolize the mainstream left of the United States, the form, if not the content, of Southern Democratic politics began to change.
After World War II, during the civil rights movement, Democrats in the South initially still voted loyally with their party. After the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, white voters who became tolerant of diversity began voting against Democratic incumbents for GOP candidates. The Republicans carried many Southern states for the first time since before the Great Depression. Rising educational levels and rising prosperity in the South, combined with shifts to the left by the national Democratic Party on a variety of socio-economic issues, led to widespread abandonment of the Democratic Party by white voters and Republican dominance in many Southern states by the 1990s and 2000s.
The abandonment was the old racist principles of Democrats. Whites went to the Republicans because they were tired of all of the civil rights obstructionist and segregationists in the Democrat party.
Democrats then decided that they were going to become extinct if they didn't try something different, so they instead acted like they were helping blacks when if fact they were only giving them a few bucks here and there and in effect buying their support.
Eventually they used Black lap-dogs like Rev. Jessie Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton to warp black mentality into thinking that Democrats were historically their benefactors and not their oppressors.
Sorry you can't figure that out for yourself.
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