[Randjuke]

Peter Onuf, a University of Virginia historian, disputes the notion that today’s Republican Party descends directly from the party of Lincoln. Onuf said that in the 1960s and ’70s, the GOP absorbed disenchanted Dixiecrats who had opposed integration and ending Jim Crow.

Gee, wonder why he threw this in. It doesn't have much to do with the topic. I guess the GOP missed absorbing Robert Byrd.

[Dan from Michigan]

Or Mel Carnahan(blackface). Or Al Gore Sr.