Pelosi Won. The Democratic Party Lost.

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148. Changes do not all come at once.

So yes, there absolutely was racism and bigotry in government and general society during the FDR years. The liberalism of that era was in programs like labor unions, Social Security, Workman's Progress, and financial regulations.

Both the Democratic and Republican parties have gone through evolutions that began long before the Civil War. (Yes, even the new Republican Party of Lincoln's time had a connection to the earlier Whigs, who were a spin off of the split in Jefferson's Democratic Republican Party.)

But I've been commenting on more recent, mid to late 20th century and early 21st century political divisions. However, regarding racism among Democrats in the Civil War era, the northern Democrats were split. In the South, support for slavery drew people to the Democrats in opposition to Lincoln and the Republicans. Racism among southern Democrats remained strong right into the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. As we see today, it is still part of society and government.