[DiogenesLamp]

You are stuck on that label stuff. Robber barons ran Washington DC in 1860, and Robber barons (located in the north east) are still running Washington DC today.

[BroJoeK]

DiogenesLamp: "You are stuck on that label stuff.
Robber barons ran Washington DC in 1860, and Robber barons (located in the north east) are still running Washington DC today."

Sorry, but you're just stuck on stupid.
In 1860 Southern slaveholding Democrats ruled in Washington, DC, and had for nearly 60 years, since they won the election of 1800.
Those slaveholding Democrats had allied themselves with Northern Democrats representing Big City immigrants (think: Tammany Hall) and the globalist commercial classes -- just like today.

And just as today, Republicans represented very different groups of people -- rural farmers, small towns, small businesses, skilled workers, religious & constitutional conservatives, suburban professionals and the like.