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Originally Posted by Mutt
This is high school American history, whatever you may think of them the Far Right pundits are well aware that Lincoln was a Republican and the 'Solid South' was total electoral domination by the Democrats across the segregated South. And remained that way until the national Democratic party took up the civil rights movement in 1948, which pissed off the segregationists enough to start a third party known as the Dixiecrats, Strom Thurmond was their candidate, who incredibly served as a US senator until his death in 2003 at age 100.
Interesting, as I read the Wikipedia entries, I see these Southern Democrats who are the ancestors of the Tea Party movement were against keeping the United States on the gold standard, today they rant and rave against the tyranny of our fiat currency system.
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Oh, they may know about Lincoln but I could bet you they don't really understand that the Republican Party was once known as the black man's party. Most people in this country are pretty ignorant of actual history outside of the very basic stuff.
I just find it pretty interesting to read an article from that time, which still almost reads true today, with the exception that both parties have reversed their roles like some sort of bazaro world and that change took place in less than 100 years. In fact there are a small handful of people today, that were alive when this article was published.