[marron]

The Republican Party was born out of the church-based Abolition movement. That is their history. It is the Republican party that has consistently stood for a century and a half for color-blind citizenship. Like Perry Drake, I am tired of Repubs acting guilty whenever the subject of race comes up.

The Democrats found their way to the civil rights movement very late in the day, and still have not managed to wrap their minds around the concept of color-blind citizenship.

It is ironic that Democrats, who were the Jim Crow party until well after Roosevelt, now point to the slave and Jim Crow legacy as proof of the essential immorality of the American experiment. They rightly see slavery as an evil that denies the principles upon which we founded our nation. They don't admit they their ideological fathers were the ones denying them, as they continue to deny and denigrate them today.

[babaloo999]

At various times over the years I've told people that Lincoln was a Republican.
Some lesser informed types refused to believe it.