Do you think there was a fundamental "values swap" between the Democratic and Republican parties in the past? Considering that it was the Republicans who freed the slaves and struggled to give blacks civil rights in the reconstruction-era South, while the Democrats started the Confederacy, and instituted and upheld Jim Crow legislation and Segregation for nearly a century, how did people come to associate the Republicans with the needs of the wealthy, whites,and big business, and the Democrats with the needs of the downtrodden and disenfranchised?
2006-07-01
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