(March 5, 2015 at 2:52 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: Let's extend it back a little:
They were:
Behind the trend on interracial marriage.
Behind the trend on civil rights.
Behind the trend on women's suffrage.
Behind the trend on slavery.
Behind the trend on heliocentrism.
etc etc etc
Not quite. The the extent that there was an anti-slavery party, the Republicans were it. Lincoln was the first Republican in office. And the Southern Democrats were just as bad about civil rights, and interracial marriage as the GOP. Can we blame it on white Christian men and have done with?
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