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[–] 1 point 3 years ago

Historically, it was the democratic party pre 1960s that were the defenders of slavery. Lincoln was a Republican at the time of the Emancipation Proclamation, and the ideologies basically switched around the time of the Civil Rights Act.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Democrats

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