Harriett Tubman will replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill

[Aegon]

So... The guy responsible for the "most infamous incident of ethnic cleansing in American history" -

Was a Democrat.

Interesting...

Yep. Democrats were the proponents of slavery as well, with the vast majority voting against the 13th amendment and some even supportive of the Confederacy's cause.

Republicans during that time was also opposed to the new industrial capitalist model of labor that was emerging across the country in light of the Industrial Revolution. They called it "wage slavery." That's how they got the farmer vote in the emerging midwest - because farmers were anti-capitalists unilaterally opposed to the model of labor we consider to be normal today.

Moral of the story: Party labels don't really mean anything that far back.

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It meant something vastly different then than it does today. If Jackson were alive today, he’d be a Trumpian Republican.

Boru

LOL..


Sure - it "means something" -

Like - Trump was Democrat. What's THAT mean?


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And exactly when? Give me a date when they switched black hats for white...

And - when do they change back?


True believers are amusing to watch..

Is there a precise date? An exact point where we can say "Alright, this is where the switch happened." Of course not, silly. If pressed, I would say it was when LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act.

But you are free to explain to me how supporters the political party that once crushed the Confederacy are now waving that flag themselves without conceding that party ideologies switched at some point.