SetFree
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You're right. Democrats are very loyal to the party and not to the person. My husband's cousin complained about older politicians and when I asked who she was voting for in the election...she proudly stated Biden. Well don't complain then if that's how you're going to vote, right?
Right.
At some point in American history, the Democrat Party was actually the Conservative party. Obviously by the time of the Civil War the liberal party were the Democrats while the Republican Party sided with the northern industrialists. The Democrat Party had two divisions between North and South, i.e., LBJ was a Southern Democrat, and JFK was a Northern Democrat.
The Southern Democrat tradition against the Republicans I think happened mostly with the Civil War, with Lincoln as a Republican supporting big business. The South saw Lincoln's sending 75,000 Union troops to invade the South as a violation of the U.S. Constitution. That created a strong hatred against the Republicans by the peoples of the South.
Times have changed though. Ex-FBI agent Cleon Skousen in 1958 made a list of then Soviet strategic points for the takeover of the United States. One of the points was to takeover one more political parties of the United States. I'd say they have the Democrat Party in hand today, and also Republican 'fence riders' who often vote with the Democrat Party.