The history of our political system is convoluted and colorful.
The Democratic Party started out as the Democratic-Republican Party.
The Republican Party evolved out of the Federalists and Whig parties.
During the Civil War, the South favored the Democrats and the Republicans represented the moneyed, industrialized North, which won the war.
Then, during the Great Depression and the presidency of the Democratic FDR New Deal era, the Dems split into the progressive Democrats and the southern Dixiecrats because of the insistence of those progressive Dems for universal civil rights, which culminated in the 1960s with the Civil Rights Movement forwarded by the Democratic Johnson administration.
Then the Dixiecrats abandoned the Democratic Party en-masse to the Republican Party, the Republican Party we have today.
So tell me, since it’s said that the Democratic Party supports racist white supremacist policies, why do racist white supremacists vote for the Republican Party?
Jeff Shamp,
Port Angeles