Democrat Party was the party of the Confederacy, lynching, preventing both women and Blacks from voting, Jim Crow laws
In the mid-19th century, from 1834 to 1856, the Whig Party was one of two major political parties in America, the Democratic Party and the Whig Party. They managed to get two presidents elected, but both died in office, whether by coincidence or divine judgment. The Whigs could not agree whether to present an anti-slavery platform or not. They, like the Democrats, wanted to keep slavery off the national agenda. They chose to ignore the issue. In 1854, the Republican Party was founded on an anti-slavery platform. In 1856, the Whig Party dissolved with remarkable speed.
The Democrat Party was the party of the Confederacy, lynching, preventing both women and Blacks from voting, Jim Crow laws, and fighting tooth and nail to continue racial segregation in schools, housing, restaurants, and even water fountains. The Democrat Party of the 1950s and ‘60s was very much the party of Woodrow Wilson (D-NJ), probably one of the most racist presidents in our history, even by early 20th century standards. Wilson was born in Virginia, raised in Georgia and South Carolina. He was the first southerner to be elected president since Reconstruction. His family supported slavery and the confederacy, his father being a chaplain in the Confederate Army. He became president of Princeton University and then governor of NJ. When he took office in 1913, Wilson, cheered on by his wife, Ellen, fired all the Black staff in the White House and resegregated the federal government. Wilson erased much of the progress made after the Civil War.
Ellen Wilson died early in his first term and Woodrow suffered a serious heart attack in 1919, leaving him bedridden. His second wife, Edith, secretly did much of the presidential work. Was it misfortune or God's justice?