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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
People who talk about the Democratic party as the party of racism and the Republican Party as the party of Lincoln (like these legacies are connected to the current parties somehow) are the same as those guys at the gym who, after a series of shirts v. skins pickup games, insist that skins won every game, even though by the time 5 or 6 runs are over, all of the guys who started off as "shirts" finished as "skins."*
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*I have a few of these people in my facebook feed. It's like interacting with our favorite brick.
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Dude, I am a proud Democrat. And I agree that the GOP stopped being the party of Lincoln starting with the
Compromise of 1877. I was just responding to GGG's assertion that the Whigs were the ones who led the country into the Civil War.
