Why does today's southern conservative Republican Party?

Question

try to get credit for what the northeastern Radical Republican Party of Lincoln did for slaves?

How exactly was Lincoln a right-wing conservative?

- He passed the first income tax in 1861 and made it progressive in 1862.
http://www.ustreas.gov/education/fact-sheets/taxes/ustax.shtml

- He believed labor was superior to capital. Theodore Roosevelt, PROGRESSIVE Republican, quoted him on that and expected to be called a communist after he said it
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/31.htm

- He exchanged correspondence with Karl Marx in which Marx congratulated Lincoln on his re-election and supported his war agains the South as part of the worker's revolution
http://www.marxists.org/history/international/iwma/documents/1864/lincoln-letter.htm

- Karl Marx wrote another letter to Johnson over Lincoln's assasination. He called Lincoln one of the rare men who succeeded in becoming great without ceasing to be good.
http://www.marxists.org/history/international/iwma/documents/1865/johnson-letter.htm

- The party he belonged to was referred by southerners as the "Radical Republican Party" because they believed the party was being too extreme with them over reconstruction.

- This Radical Republican Party was based in the socially liberal northeast and led by such men as Charles Sumner from MASSACHUSETTS (not Mississippi).

- He expanded the power of the federal government over the states.

- According to neo-confederate conservatives, the Party of Lincoln was infested with socialists and outright communists.
http://www.confederateamericanpride.com/...

- He has been called the "American Lenin" by right-wing liberterians.
http://www.lneilsmith.org/abelenin.html

PLEASE CONS, TELL ME HOW YOU CAN BE PEN PALS WITH KARL MARX AND HAVE SOCIALISTS FIGHTING ON YOUR SIDE AND STILL BE A RIGHT-WING CONSERVATIVE?

Prison,

Those racist Democrats were CONSERVATIVES! This is about ideology not party. The South has always been more socially conservative then the rest of the nation.

"Southern Bloc"
The name given to a group of ((CONSERVATIVE)) southern Democratic Senators, and one Republican Senator (John Tower of Texas), who opposed passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The southern bloc was led by Senator Richard Russell of Georgia.
http://www.congresslink.org/print_teaching_glossary.htm#Sbloc

Answer 1

White southerners of the 1850s considered the Republican Party to be radical and they even nicknamed them the “Black Republicans” because the Republican Party was anti-slavery and the radical elements of the party supported equal rights for blacks.

White southerners were Democrats but they split from the Northern Democrats in 1860 over the issue of slavery. The Northern Democrats were pretty conservative but they would not agree to accede to the southerners’ wish for a plank in the Democratic Party’s platform endorsing slavery in the territories. Lincoln was therefore able to win the election because the Democrats were split, running separate candidates.

The desire of Republican conservatives today to take credit for the acts of the very liberal Republican Party of the 1850s and 1860s is disingenuous and actually pretty funny. I don’t know how they manage to sell that to the conservative southerners whose ancestors would rather have died than vote for the party of Lincoln.

Answer 2

The bigger question is how Democrats paint the Republicans as racists when it was the Republican controlled United States that had to defeat the DEMOCRATIC SOUTH in order to free the slaves.

Riddle me THAT, Batman....

Answer 3

The only people they're fooling with that are the same people who truly believe that Karl Rove just accidentally deleted all those emails.

Answer 4

Well the democrats fought to keep slavery and they fought against civil rights Again more proof of the failure of the public school system as displayed in the question