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.
lol....found your button unintentionally.....sorry....Radical Republicans from Reconstruction have never been on my Christmas wishlist.....so my GOP affections are much more recent...like 1960s or Ike before
* what the heck was Cotton Mather bigoted about? (like I care....racism and bigotry just don’t get me all worked up anymore to be candid...it’s like the wolf crying peter nowadays...Mather was btw...pretty instrumental in proselytizing to slaves.....something not very common that early and hardly bigoted...(again..like I care)
I know it’s pure conjecture but I do find a line from Puritan sanctimony to today’s race baiting GOP social moderates
Merry Christmas from Dixie!