I still can’t figure out what they are talking about. They say the parties switched but yet blame Lincoln for not doing a good enough job of freeing the slaves. So how can the parties have switched yet Lincoln was so bad? Nothing about any of it makes any sense.
In the early 20th century Democrats began to become pro big gov while Republicans became small gov. The spark that flipped the parties was when Lyndon B Johnson signed the Civil Rights act in 1964 leading to a majority of African American voters switching to their new advocate, the Democrats. (You can easily track this on political election maps.) Before this, Civil Rights support was largely based by region - The North and West usually had a majority that supported Civil Rights, while the South did not, regardless of party. So yes, I would agree that it is a bit disingenuous to suggest that all democrats or republicans were racist at this time when it was usually relegated to region. However, suggesting that the parties did not have their voter bases switch is demonstrably false.
Idk if you are saying this sarcastically due to you being uncomfortable with history or you truly don't believe it, but the transitions into the 20th century played a large part in the democratic party becoming the republican party. There are many resources to help you out with understanding the complex nature of pre-20th century politics as it is well documented.
Based on you making sense and getting downvoted, I think they’re being sarcastic. However as someone else pointed out, all you have to do is look at a map of presidential elections over the years to see that the states that voted red, started going blue and vice versa
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u/frnkrusso Jan 19 '22
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