[Capriole]

Every Confederate soldier was a Democrat. The hatred within the Democratic Party for the UNITED States of America, the Constitution, ands the flag goes back to the 1860s and beyond. See http://www.republicanbasics.com/ to read about a history book from the Republican point of view.

Do check your facts. A lot of Confederate soldiers were not Democrats but supported the Constitutional Union Party, which was another party that put up a candidate (Bell) in 1860. The terms Democratic and Republican have swapped meanings in the intervening 143 years, and during the War it was the Democrats who supported the positions most Republicans embrace now.

Why are you are so consumed with hatred for Confederates and the South now, 140 years later? What is the source of your abiding bitterness toward all these people who are dead and have done you no harm? You sound like a lot of black people who can't get over the fact that their great-great-great-grandparents were slaves.

[Grand Old Partisan]

The election of 1860 took place before the Confederacy was created. During the war, the Confederates shifted completely over to the Democratic Party. The eleven rebel states sent Representatives and Senators to the U.S. Congress in late 1865 -- everyone one of them, such as former Whig Alexander Stephens, was a Democrat.

I don't hate the South, not even the killers of 400,000 U.S. troops in the 1860s. The 200,000 southern blacks and 100,000 southern whites were southerners too.