No, you've not been keeping up.
Apparently the democrats who owned slaves, started Jim Crow laws, supported segregation until the 1970s, and formed the KKK were all "secret" republicans.
You know, like George Wallace who on his deathbed in 1998 pledged allegiance to the democratic party.
Gotta keep up with the narrative don't you know.
George Washington was a Democrat? Who knew. But then all of the Founding era slave holders are exempt from neoyankee hatred because they want to be able to claim them.
"started Jim Crow laws"
Like the Black Codes of Lincoln's own Illinois?
But then as you say, gotta keep up with the narrative.