http://weeklysift.com/2012/12/03/a-short-history-of-white-racism-in-the-two-party-system/

If you’ve seen the Lincoln movie, maybe you’re still walking around with this bit of cognitive dissonance: In 1864, the Democrats are the party of slavery and the Republicans the party of emancipation and racial justice. What’s up with that? How did we get from there to here?

~ Doug Muder

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