"But Democrats supported slavery" [View all]

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You hear this refrain a lot in a weak attempt to frame us as pro slavery.
Especially now.

What's conveniently omitted either through ignorance or deceit is a major political shift that took place in the south.

In American politics, the southern strategy was a Republican Party electoral strategy to increase political support among white voters in the South by appealing to racism against African Americans.[1][2][3] As the Civil Rights Movement and dismantling of Jim Crow laws in the 1950s and 1960s visibly deepened pre-existing racial tensions in much of the Southern United States, Republican politicians such as presidential candidate Richard Nixon and Senator Barry Goldwater developed strategies that successfully contributed to the political realignment of many white, conservative voters in the South to the Republican Party that had traditionally supported the Democratic Party.[4] It also helped push the Republican Party much more to the right.[4]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy