Aftershock: Beyond the Civil War from the History Channel hints around at my point of this blog. That point is that bigotry, whether it's racial, sexist, academic, elitist or any other form, is incompatible with republicanism and the Republican Party. Let the Democrats say what they will, there is no way a bigot can exploit anyone, minority or majority, when the rules of the "republic for which it stands" are kept sacred. Democrats have a knack for calling Republicans everything they are themselves. It's not to say that all Democrats are bigots, but all bigots are Democrats. The Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist wing of the Democratic Party whose sole mission was to make sure they were not outvoted by the black republicans in the southern states. They certainly were outnumbered by the registration of black voters before the election of 1866 in all the southern states, not even a full year after the Republicans passed the thirteenth amendment in Congress. The Northern democrats couldn't even support the amendment with twenty five percent. The southern democrats were not there. All but one had left the Union to join the Confederate States. Even our first Republican President Abraham Lincoln was murdered by a Democrat. John Wilkes Boothe was an actor from a family of actors who were all Democrats except for one brother who disowned him for killing Lincoln. Things are so much the same today. Actors tend to be elitists I suppose. Most who hated Pres.George W. Bush behaved the same way they did during the Reconstruction Period.
More on the Carpetbaggers, Scalawags, Copperheads and Freedmen later.
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