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The confederates were (southern) democrats
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More important than the name of their party is their ideology. Conservative.
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Conservative is not always bad, but take it too far and you end up with fascists and stalinists.
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It wasn’t really a switch, more like both parties having an ideological shift. A switch implies they didn’t change core beliefs at all and just flipped, when many of the beliefs of both parties changed.
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The parties never switched. The Democrats just started pandering to the minorities they’ve been fighting against the entire time because they were losing a lot of votes.
Republicans freed the slaves. Republicans ended segregation.
Democrats just keep promising change that never comes.
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