Years ago my daughter did a paper in college of the Democrats and the KKK, she freaked her teacher out.
I remember a Dem “explaining” to me that sure, the Dems of the past were racists but those who were racist were naturally attracted out of “true” Democrat party to join the hateful repub party. Also, “decent” repubs realized what their party “really was” (awakened) and fled to the egalitarian Dem party-paraphraising here but the claim was
that the parties essentially switched places???!!!!! Alrighty then! The Dems reason they therefore have NO REGRETS!
Abraham Lincoln was well-loved by Blacks for some time after the Civil War. Throughout the south, there were Black congressmen who were voted in and they were all Republican.
People need to be reminded that it was the Republican party that was formed to free the slaves. The dems always worked to keep slavery.
It was the GOP who fought for women's voting rights and now the GOP is the party that is fighting for unborn human rights.
I know we have some scoundrels in our party, but we are taking it back.