And that is just your own dumbed-down version of history.
In fact, Democrats then were the same kinds of people they are today: radicals, violently at war against the United States and our Constitution, determined to preserve at all costs their own special privileges at the expense of non-Democrat Americans.
Democrats then as now were an alliance of big business (then it was mainly cotton) with Big City immigrant bosses.
Republicans then as now were ordinary, small-town, small-business conservative Americans devoted to our founding principles and documents.
In 1860 we were willing to live & let live with slavery in the South, but not at the expense of losing the Democrats' war against the United States.
Oh, dear... did I hurt your poor feelings?
Do you need a safe space... maybe a support animal?