Tell me more on what actually happened on this, because there's no way it was as simple as Republicans becoming Democrats and vice-versa.
Republican-Democrat Party Switch
Luis Williams
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Ethan Clark
It wasn't really a switch desu.
Brayden Kelly
It wasn't a switch. Just two parties changing with the winds of their voter blocks.
Noah Price
Dems changed at their core, but theu didn't switch with Republicans, who are, at their core, the same party Lincoln founded.
Daniel Harris
What switch?
Alexander Smith
I assume not, but I see a bunch of people pushing the idea anyway, mainly by Dems to distance their party away from slavery and whatnot.
Tyler Gomez
Here's 1968. George Wallace is a Democrat by the way.
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Here's 1972, which doesn't tell us anything except Nixon was really popular
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Here's 1980. South is still a Democrat stronghold
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1984 What meager strength Mondale had outside of his home state was Southern.
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1988 Dukakis pretty much pulled a Mondale
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1992 Bush and Clinton split the South
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1996 More of the same.
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2000 We see Democrats start disappearing from everywhere that isn't predominantly black or a city en.wikipedia.org
Xavier Cruz
I shouldn't base my knowledge on movies but don't they say in Lincoln that the Republican party was created to be a Conservative and Anti-slavery party?
Robert Gray
Once upon a time, there was a man named Franklin Roosevelt. He was so charismatic, and his predecessor was so shitty, he was able to make a party that consisted of everyone except bankers. He called this party "The Big Tent."
After thirteen years, Roosevelt died. The Democrats who came after him tried to hold on to this Big Tent, but this was very hard because times weren't so bad, and they weren't quite as charismatic. The divisions between different factions of the big tent began to show.
At the same time, the whole country was fighting against the scum of the earth, called the Soviet Union. But every time the nice diplomats at the UN tried to point out that the Soviets oppressed people, the commie rat bastards would say "Yes, but you hang black people." And the United States would be embarrassed.
By the 1960s, the Big Tent had completely fallen apart, and the Democrats had to make a choice. No matter what happened, they would lose a part of their party. So they made the decision that they would prefer to hold on to the votes of all the black people in the country, and lose the southern whites. At the same time, those red sons of bitches wouldn't be able "Yeah, well you hang blacks" anymore.
Republicans, wanting to win some elections, picked up the angry white southerners that the Democrats let go. Had Nixon won the election in 1960 and presided over the Civil Rights movement, Blacks would be voting republican to this day.
The end.
Daniel Morales
Although he had been a Democrat, Wallace ran as an independent in '68.
Yes, specifically Free Soilers, people opposed to the creation of more slave states.