Not stated clearly enough:
Most all southern slaveholders were...
——DRUMROLL——
“Democrats”
But the only thing they’ve cancelled about themselves is their history in that respect.
One of the dumbest current habits is the reduction of slavery and the Civil War to the Democratic Party. That habit has gotten widespread thanks to the comic book history of Glenn Beck and Dinesh D’Souza, who like to keep their ‘history’ as simplistic as possible for their audience.