Hocus Pocus

yup... they wanted so badly to distance themselves from the party name that is synonymous with slavery... aka democrats... that they changed it...

Oh wait... that never happened... they're liars...

Republicans can magically stop being racist anytime.

This is not about Republicans. This is about Progressive Democrats trying to shed their own racist history by saying the magic word "switched."

OK. So screw those nasty evil Progressive Democrats over. Tell the Republicans to magically stop being racist now.

I will write a letter to Tim Scott, Ben Carson, Herschel Walker, and Candace Owens right now.

Only one of whom is even working in politics at the moment?

Gee, you really solved it there.

They are all Republicans, aren't they? So they must be racist. Please follow your own logic.

Correct, there was never a switch.

Lincoln was a racist, I agree. So this implies that the Civil War was not about slavery. Good to know.

Correct you are!

The preservation of slavery was directly mentioned by the Articles of Secession as the cassus belli several times. That's a direct admission from the Confederecy itself, and Lincoln's political spin during the war doesn't invalidate that one bit.

And I'm saying that to Modda as much as I'm saying that to you.

"If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that." A. Lincoln

That's a direct admission from the Confederecy itself, and Lincoln's political spin during the war doesn't invalidate that one bit.

Take your time. Don't rush it.

It is clear that Southern Democrats wanted to preserve slavery, but it is not clear that the war was fought to free the slaves. Lincoln said over and over again that it was about preserving the Union. Leaders in the North did not care about the welfare of the slaves. That is made clear by the Corwin amendment.

The Confederacy set the casus belli through the Articles of Secession. Casus Belli literally translates to What The War Is About. It is nonsense to use the political spin of a politician to pretend that the people who explicitly set the reasons for going to war didn't write the texts that you can search for on your browser to this day.

Articles of secession were issued by I think 4 states in the deep South. Was not official Confederate documents like you imply. I have read them. I don't remember the language "Causes Belli" in any of them. Could you please post your sources? https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states#georgia_federal_govt

Casus Belli. Literally "the case for war". An expression meaning the legal and political motivation for a conflict, used as a justification for why the conflict is not being resolved diplomatically. Every war has one because every war needs to be justified to people who would prefer peace.

Imagine watching a TV commercial and someone says to you "how come this commercial doesn't actually have the words 'sales pitch' in it?" That's the level of nonsense you're talking right now.

You must speak Latin. Here's a phrase I like. "“Caput tuum in ano est”

Your phrase is good too!

Yeah, well, this conversation is open for everyone to read and judge for themselves which one of us is being obstinate.

Referring back to the OP. Do you agree that the racist history of the Democratic Party now belongs to the Republican Party? And, if so please explain your logic in terms of cause and effect, not emotional BS and whataboutisms.