@Motorpool Grease Monkey You’re collapsing 160 years of American political history into a single narrative. Yes, Southern Democrats defended slavery and segregation, many KKK members were Democrats, and many Southern Democratic politicians supported Jim Crow—but the KKK was not an official arm of the Democratic Party, eugenics had bipartisan support, and both parties underwent major ideological realignments over the twentieth century. Parties have changed so much, for example, the Republican Party has basically been co-opted in the present by Christian Nationalists, Fascists, and anti-science. Don’t you think I’d notice the ideological slant in your post?