is it true that the democrats and republicans started as the same political party?

Answer 1

No. The modern Democratic Party is descended from a party founded by Jefferson called the Democratic-Republicans. The modern Republican party was founded in the 1850's as an anti-slavery party separate from any that was presently in existence.

Answer 2

Not really. At the founding there were two major political groups Federalists (Washington, Hamilton, Madison, etc.) and Anti-Federalists (Patrick Henry, etc.).

During Washington and Adam's Presidencies the division was between Federalists still noteably Hamilton and Adams, and Jeffersonian Republicans like Jefferson and Madison, yes Madison switched.

Jefferson and his allies took the Presidency and Congress in 1800 (Alien and Sedation Acts, VA and KY Resolutions, etc.)

Then in 1816 James Monroe was elected. He was reelected with literally no noticable opposition in 1820 which leads many to claim that the Republicans and Democrats are both traceable to the 1820 Democratic Republicans (renamed post Jefferson).

1824 was a mess, and from their the issue of slavery started to divide the parties noteably. The Republican Party ran John C. Fremont for President in 1856 against a Democrat named James Buchanan and the two parties have been in existence with their current names since then on a national basis.

Minnesota had some strange division between its urban and rural democratic party until recently and other areas probably have similar divides, but since 1856 the two parties have existed with their current names.

The makeup of the parties has changed since then, but that was issue driven with people like Trent Lott leaving the Democrats and becoming Republicans as Democrats favored big government intervention on behalf of African Americans in the mid 19th century.

Answer 3

No...

Democrats as we know them today were referred to as "Democratic Republicans." Republicans came about as a result of the decline of the Whig party and breakaway Federalists. After the Civil War, the entire political spectrum shifted and lines were completely redrawn. People started identifying moreso with the opposite political party. Republicans then started siding more with the DemReps and vica versa. The parties basically traded spaces. Before the Civil War, DemReps were found in the south and Reps were found in the North. After the Civil War, it changed. Now, Republicans are more likely to be found in the south while Democrats are more likely to be found in the north.

Make sense?

Answer 4

No it is not true. Thomas Jefferson was the head of the Democratic -Republicans (sometimes referred to as the "Republican Party" in history books), who became today's Democratic Party.

Today's Republican party was formed in the 1850s from the Free Soil Party and remnants of the northern Whig Party, which was split geographically over the issue of slavery.

Answer 5

FALSE! The only thing Democraps know is they are against Republicans and the only thing Republicans know is they are against the Democraps.

It has always been this way.

Just ask the parites, only don't ask them at different times, they'll just rebuke the other's side.

Answer 6

Earlier party's remains.

Answer 7

Yes its true