What you’re probably thinking of is the “southern Democrats” that flipped. Long story short they were considered the conservative party until the mid 20th century when the party leaders began passing civil rights laws. They flipped to the Republican party and here we are.
Yeah, the Democrats came about ~25 years before the Republicans and they were staunch conservatives, and Republicans were the more “progressive/liberal” in U.S. terms.
Democrats were from the south, and first Republican president was Lincoln and the whole ending slavery thing. Late 1800s Republicans stopped caring about civil rights as much, and when the great depression came about FDR ran as a Democrat that flipped the script and wanted more progressive policies. I’m sure there is a lot of give & take but that’s a quick way I would draw it up.
(Always gives me a chuckle, because the whole south will rise again comments, and anti democrats are often coming from the same people… which were the same people at the time)
One thing to point to, is that republicans stopped caring so much after reconstruction when they tried to make inroads into the south.
the question of civil rights, or being progressive were largely more a North vs South thing. Before the Southern Strategy, democrats had their stronghold in the south and reflected that. while the republicans- like Lincoln who was from Illinois- were based in the north.
Weren’t the parties reversed at one point, where Republicans had the more left position and Democrats had the position of the right? 🤔
I remember reading or seeing something about that a long time ago. IDK if it’s true, tho.
What you’re probably thinking of is the “southern Democrats” that flipped. Long story short they were considered the conservative party until the mid 20th century when the party leaders began passing civil rights laws. They flipped to the Republican party and here we are.
Southern Democrats
Yeah, the Democrats came about ~25 years before the Republicans and they were staunch conservatives, and Republicans were the more “progressive/liberal” in U.S. terms.
Democrats were from the south, and first Republican president was Lincoln and the whole ending slavery thing. Late 1800s Republicans stopped caring about civil rights as much, and when the great depression came about FDR ran as a Democrat that flipped the script and wanted more progressive policies. I’m sure there is a lot of give & take but that’s a quick way I would draw it up.
(Always gives me a chuckle, because the whole south will rise again comments, and anti democrats are often coming from the same people… which were the same people at the time)
One thing to point to, is that republicans stopped caring so much after reconstruction when they tried to make inroads into the south.
the question of civil rights, or being progressive were largely more a North vs South thing. Before the Southern Strategy, democrats had their stronghold in the south and reflected that. while the republicans- like Lincoln who was from Illinois- were based in the north.