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The Republican Party was explicitly founded as an abolitionist party, it's partly why the Confederate states shit their pants in a baby rage when Lincoln was elected.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/republican-party-founded
That doesn't mean there weren't pro-slavery Republicans, there were quite a few, it just means they were evil AND stupid if they were.
This is a more accurate criticism of the "helped end segregation" line. Yes, the Civil Rights Act was extremely bipartisan by modern standards, but the majority of the support was from the areas outside the South in general.
again.... the politics of abolitionism was more of a north vs south thing. not a party thing.
The republicans, as noted in the very source you linked, were founded in the north. The northern states generally did not rely on slave labor and their economy was not reliant on it, in the way that it was in the southern states.
as republican base's shifted south and they became more involved in southern industry... their attitudes towards slavery, civil rights, and all that began to change. The two parties flipped positions, with democrats becoming stronger in the north also becoming influenced there. Civil Rights and simply not being assholes has always been a north vs south issue, not one of parties.
This is not correct. The Republican party was founded in 1854 as an anti-slavery party. In fact, when Lincoln won the presidency in 1860, he wasn't even on some of the southern ballots. There were Northern democrats who were pro-slavery. I would imagine any southern Republicans were anti-slavery.
lol. Like most populations, there’s variations.
For example, Texas today. It’s dominated by republican politics; despite the cities being fairly liberal.
Or Minnesota- mostly dominated by democratic politics, despite the outstate being very MAGA.
But read your statement again:
Also not that the Republican Party stated in Wisconsin, (in the north.)
Also, check out this electoral map of the 1860 election:
Looks familiar, doesn’t it? Aside from most the western states not being, ah, states, that is.