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Sorry to disabuse you of your terrible education in History, but the slave owning confederates were Democrats. Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican president. After the war, the continued segregation, poll taxes on blacks (to prevent them from voting), oppression, lynching and burning were all perpetrated by Dixiecrats, all the way up to Huey fkng Long in the 1930's.The "south" both politicians as well as general populace, has never really forgiven or forgotten how they lost to the "progressive" "northerners".
There has been a political and social conflict in America ever since the Civil War. The differences have never really been resolved and we witness it day in day out with the non stop "culture wars" that have been taking place ever since.
America has always been in a very low intensity civil conflict, mainly around these political and cultural battles, with recent spikes in violence surrounding these differences.
The civil war fought largely over America's original sin of slavery, still rages today with the residue of such a horrific past still haunting the current landscape. From civil rights movement to BLM, the same conflict largely over race and inequality continues.
The spirit of the slave owning confederates is alive and well in Donald Trumps Republican party.
The "plantation" mentality that continues to this day is a main plank of the platform of, you guessed it, the Blue Team. Ask any black Republican why they are republican, and they will make it very clear, that despite the Dems claims to be "all about civil rights," that is merely a convenient sales pitch. Kennedy had an uphill battle doing what he thought was the right thing in his own party, and had to be extremely circumspect in dealing with MLK and other activists. Johnson was worried that his follow-through on the Civil Rights Act was going to backfire on the Dem party for the long term. Today's party thinks Black Americans "owe" them their vote, since they've hooked up multiple generations with welfare benefits and obama added free fkng cell phones. Biden as much as admitted it with the comment "If you don't vote for me, you ain't black."
The fact that you actually believe the flimsy lies that Trump, or anything but a tiny minority of his followers, are racist, just proves how frigging gullible you are. The Dems say that about Every. Single. White. Republican. Candidate. It's their go-to sales pitch. Meanwhile, we've got Ben Carson, Tim Scott, Allen West, Michelle Malkin, Candace Owens, and several Black Republican candidates for the House proving it to be a lie.