re: Nation’s poorest states have Republican legislatures; richest have Democrat

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There was no party of slavery.

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You're fos

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And the Democratic party was the party of conservative SOUTHERNERS

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throwing the word conservative in there to describe racist pos southern slave clinging DEMOCRATS dont make them conservative or Republican, they were neither.

Republicans became a party in large part because of the abolitionist movement.

frick you revisionist historians who want to shift the true shame of your party's racist and vile legacy into the heroes who defeated your evil.