On January 31, 1865, the U.S. House of Representatives passes the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, abolishing slavery in America. The amendment read,
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Democratic Party
"The Democratic Party is one of the two major political parties in the United States, and the nation’s oldest existing political party. After the Civil War, the party dominated in the South due to its opposition to civil and political rights for African Americans. After a major shift in the 20th century, today’s Democrats are known for their association with a strong federal government and support for minority, women’s and labor rights, environmental protection and progressive reforms."
"Then in 1948, after President Harry Truman (himself a Southern Democrat) introduced a pro-civil rights platform, a group of Southerners walked out of the party’s national convention. These so-called Dixiecrats ran their own candidate for president (Strom Thurmond and governor of South Carolina) on a segregationist States Rights ticket that year; he got more than 1 million votes."
"Although Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed civil rights legislation (and sent federal troops to integrate a Little Rock high school in 1954), it was Lyndon B. Johnson, a Democrat from Texas, who would eventually sign the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1966 into law.
Upon signing the former bill, Johnson reportedly told his aide Bill Moyers that “I think we just delivered the South to the Republican Party for a long time to come.”
Over the course of the late 1960s and 1970s, more and more white Southerners voted Republican..."
Stop playing dumb
@Medic007 . Everyone knows the Democratic and Republican Parties have greatly changed since the Civil War (essentially switched places, Lincoln would be a Democrat today). You definitely know this, since you once were a Democrat and followed Strom Thurmond to the Republican Party.