[wardaddy]

My family has been Republican since Fremont, before that we were whigs.

and before that?

Cotton Mather?

[fireforeffect]

WTFO? Why the Ad Hominem attack?

Cotton Mather was a bigoted Harvard Professor and ordained minister, NOT a political party.

The answer to your question: prior to Andrew Jackson there was no “Democrat” party, and AJ is the reason my family became anti-democrat.