Many on the right tell me that Democrats were pro-slavery and pro-segregation (it was the right)

it's funny because republicans used to be considered liberal and democrats conservative but then at some point it just switched lol

Southern Democrats were never "liberal" or "progressive". That's the bottom line.

Think of it this way: The Republicans/Party of Lincoln during the Civil War was the party that WANTED bigger federal government able to tell states what to do (ie- abolish slavery) while the Democrats wanted to Keep America Great by limiting the federal government powers and maintain traditional ways of life and STATES RIGHTS. The states right, in this case, to maintain the institution of slavery.

I wanna put this on the main politics stream; I get that argument all the time on social media as well.

You’re only partially correct. But it’s not left or right politics at play here. It’s more what were Democrats liberal about and what Republicans were conservative about. Democrats always supported Jim Crow and Segregation until they didn’t. Republicans supported Abolition and Civil Rights until they didn’t.

Both parties have always played on the prejudices of people and a century after the Civil War, those scars remained in reflection of the Electoral College. Southern Racists that controlled most of the south didn’t stay there after suffering loss after loss. They branched out and moved away. Spreading their influence more in rural areas across the country rather than just the old Confederate South. Numerous changes in how the parties attempted to bridge that gap between rural and urban areas over the last fifty or sixty years, and the Supreme Court being liberal enough to allow Roe v Wade; birthed the newer dynamic.

Democrats and Republicans are basically against certain ideas and platforms that both balance the line between what should be a persons responsibility or a public limitation. Even their major platforms are corrupted to reflect their basic stances. Democrats want more control in regards to guns and birth. Republicans want more freedom in regards to religion and work.

Yet, Democrats also use to support Segregation and Slavery as a religious freedom. And Republicans use to champion Civil Rights until race mixing and homosexuals turned them away from it. Demanding they should get credit for their initial attempts at equality while ignoring the rampant inequality.

Negligence and obstructionism threaten the parties as they are today. They appear to be shifting again but not back to where they were but rather further left and right from their original positions. Today’s Teapublicans and Socialcrats argue about what is and isn’t reality. It is quite disturbing, to say the least.

No, I would not say the Republicans are denying their past but rather exploiting it as proof that they could never be as racist as their opposition often claims. The only thing they're denying is what has changed in the 150 years since then.

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I love how the south became more tolerant and less racist it became republican.

The majority of white southerners were the RIGHT then, and they're the RIGHT now. But, yes, they're improving....

All good things come with time.

you see way more confederate flags there than any other place. you still have trump flags up. you still have confederate flags up (they lost also). guess our just the party of sore losers

*your

I've never heard of the southern polictical party.

it doesnt exist. the *REPUBLICAN* party is just the party of sore losers.

Then why was the north originally republican?

parties can change. i would be a republican if i was in the civil war time period. now you're whatever the party is now. the last good classic republican values have been lost my friend.

Like what?

liberty, unity, and EQUALITY

Alright, name some liberty republicans oppose, what republicans oppose unity? Equality what are you talking about everyone has the same rights in the US.

No they are not because of you guys. There is systemic racism with the police industry, America is flooded with sexism and misogyny, when I was a kid I had to worry because of my sexuality and many kids today don’t feel comfortable in their own home and schools 40% gay youth were kicked out of their house for being gay. In this country there is sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, and xenophobia. There you go.

trump would have had slaves back then. he didnt allow blacks into his hotels early on

Ok, your imaginary fantasies aren't reality.

a worker there legit had to tell a black person that the rent was two times the white rent so they couldnt afford it.

You do realize the article is about Trump's father right?

https://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-report-trump-housing-discrimination-2017-2

Did you even read the article?