They're still having trouble taking responsibility for their "peculiar institution."
“They’re still having trouble taking responsibility for their “peculiar institution.”
Slavery began more than a hundred years before the Revolution.
And about 170 years before the founding of the Democratic Party in 1828.
Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe all had large slave holdings before there was a Democratic Party. Washington being perhaps the largest slaveowner of his day.
The majority of Americans have a knowledge of a history that rivals the average 4th grader. Why freepers insist on imitating them is a mystery.