[Larry Lucido]

so why not go ahead and register democrat so you can vote in a fashion to match all this new knowledge you're acquiring?

Oh, maybe because Democrats were the pro-slavery party then, just as they are now? Next stupid question, please.

[Twodees]

Back then, the democrats were the conservatives and the republicans were the upstart utopians, socialists and atheistic haters of Christian society and the constitution.

The parties haven't switched sides, they have simply decided to apply the same standards. Seriously, Larry, why are you buying into the line championed by the marxists in academia? Is it because the republican party also champions that same line in defiance of the historical record?