Re: American Public About to Send a Message to the Republicans?
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I'm wondering if the issues of personal freedom and privacy rights aren't close to being just as significant. I'm fairly certain they are.
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I think you're right on. I used to vote primarily republican but have totally switched for these reasons.
Back in the days of the reconstruction following the civil war, it was the southern democrats who enacted all of the Jim Crow laws. Most southern states who seceeded were almost exclusively electing democrats. Lincoln, a republican, was all about civil liberties.
It seems as though the two parties have flipped 180 degrees in this regard. I wonder how that even happened.
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