[BillyBoy]

>> I have yet to find the Democrats promote any Republican "heroes," other than Lincoln. In fact, most Democrats today will you tell you point-blank that Lincoln was a Democrat. They could have been absent the day the teacher taught that Lincoln was the first elected Republican president. Of course, in today's PC curriculum "it" may not "say" that Lincoln was a Republican! <<

So tell me, if FDR was the second coming of Lincoln, why did the "conservative" southern states overwheming vote AGAINST Lincoln but then vote overwhemingly FOR Roosevelt? Does that sound consistant?

This article just proves the bulls--t you hear on this forum everyday that "the Democrats were the conservative party until Johnson took over in the 60s and then the south switched parties...blah blah blah"

[Theodore R.]

Well, it's a party thing -- D and R means a lot to many. Lincoln was viewed in the South as an evil "northern aggressor" who usurped the Constitution to halt secession. FDR was seen as a good-natured patrician who loved the "common man" and who would give the people "freedom from want" and "freedom from fear." FDR successfully painted the Republicans as "economic royalists" and "uncaring" for the little guy. Naturally, the South (and the rest of the country) bought the FDR line.