Reply #16: He's absolutely right.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

They kept slaves, were mostly extremely racist and anti-semitic, banned women from voting, were mostly strongly pro-gun, anti-gay, anti tax and I suspect anti-abortion (although I haven't checked), would have been horrified at todays social security and the idea of single-payer health care, and there was a stronger pro-states-rights, anti-federalism movement among them than there is today.

They were left wing on a few issues (freedom of speech, separation of Church and State) and arguably less far right than many of their contemporaries, but in the main, by modern standards, they and everyone else before the 20th century was very far right indeed.