Can someone here please tell me why there are still people who think they can equate the Republican and Democratic parties of the 1860's to that of today? I cannot believe there is even ONE person here who thinks this carries ANY credibility!!! usmcobra, your PC teacher would be proud to know that you are still indoctrinated.
Before one esposes the virtues of Republican leadership in the 1860's, the blight on American history called Reconstruction must be considered! Hardly a high point in our collective past.
My "PC" teacher was proud of the fact that southern Democrats dared to secede from them damned yankees, and taught me all about how the south was right in the late 60's.
Oh I was indoctrinated alright, but not how you think!
I grew up in a time when we still had colored fountains and seperate bathrooms, and George Wallace walked and stood up against integration and the federal government claiming States Rights gave him the right to deny black people the right to go to good schools and to vote.
What changed in me was I've look back on what I was taught and found that it was nothing but democrat political indoctrination of the worst sort.
Source docs point out many Democrats were pro-union (esp. up North), and the election of Lincoln resulting in secession was not a foregone conclusion, though many state leaders were pulsing the issue.
It's really tough to paint the 1860 Democrats with a broad brush considering they ran 3 candidates with mixed views. The donkeys back then were very different than those of today.
he is SO PREDICTABLE & doesn't know that he has been made a FOOL & south-HATING bigot by their KNOWING LIES!
free dixie,sw
The Democrats played the race card in 1860 for all it was worth and they are still playing it for all it's worth today --- just from the other side of the deck.
The Democrat party has never really stood for anything except maintaining power through division of people into "interest groups" and instilling fear, suspicion and out right hatred of it's opponents.