Republican party is considered to have been founded in Ripon, Wisconsin, 1854, in opposition to slavery:

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Republican party is considered to have been founded in Ripon, Wisconsin, 1854, in opposition to slavery: (photo)

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Who is going to tell Nikki Haley?

[Lunabell]

1. My, how times have changed.

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. They've come 1/2 circle.

[reymega life]

3. I really doubt the validity of the Republican Party and its origins

because they have always supported shady deals like turning a blind eye to the KKK AND Jim Crow.

[former9thward]

4. That is a rejection of history.

After the Civil War it was the Republicans who fought for civil rights in the South. The Democratic party of the time was the party of the KKK and Jim Crow. Where did you learn history?

[reymega life]

5. that's why Andrew Johnson was the worst in air quotes but grant had lots of scandals in his presidency

[DemocraticPatriot]

9. Only after their first ten years or so.....

They made a deal with the South during the very-close election of 1876--- for some southern electors to support the election of GOP candidate Harrison, in exchange for the North withdrawing occupying troops from the southern states.

Before that, the Republican party was the anti-slavery party and the party of 'freedom'----

but afterwards, they did abandon the ideal of 'freedom' in the south,
and 'freedom' for the former slaves....


If I had been alive at that time, I would have been voting for Republicans from 1854 through 1876, I suspect...
After that, ideologies were confusing for a few decades....

The Republicans were the party of freedom for the first decade or so of their existence----
but after the war ended, they were much more concerned with retaining their political power over the entire country,
regardless of right or wrong

(sounds a bit like modern times, yes?)

[DemocraticPatriot]

6. The meeting in Wisconsin was the first to call themselves 'Republican',

but the meeting shortly afterwards in Jackson, Michigan, was the first to identify themselves as
"Republican Party".... (for the same reasons)

Regardless, the Republican movement was born across several Northern states in 1854,
and it seems to me that there is no 'one' state that can claim to have been the birthplace of it,
nationally speaking...

[LiberalFighter]

7. Yes! That would had been before my ancestors immigrated to Wisconsin in 1860.

In the general area. Mostly in SE Green Lake County and neighboring Columbia County in Scott Twp.

[SoFlaBro]

8. What a goddamn difference a day makes....