Lost in all this fuss is the fact that the Confederates were Democrats. Why should a Republican be questioned about the rebel flag? See http://grandoldpartisan.typepad.com/blog/2007/03/the_democratic_.html for more information.
Not all Confederates were Dems..,,as my my G-G grandaddy told me ,,be proud to be an American (though I was alittle young at the time),,I believe he was an Independant..,,I know my Grandaddy was an Independant,,He could care less about the Battle Flag (and he knew the reason for the Flag)..and he was as Southern as the ground I walk on...Just don’t spit on his family,,and that applies today as it did in the ‘50s’..
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For the last time, the Democrats of the 19th century were for limited government. The spawns of that bastard Hamilton, the Whig/Republicans OTOH, were for government programs that had been tried in every state (and failed), for printing money out of thin air, and for heavy tariffs to fund their 'internal improvements' in the north and buy off northern manufacturers with protectionist policies.
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“...Confederates were Democrats”...........So what?
It's not so much "lost" in the fuss. Rather:
- It's an incorrect statement as there were also Whig, Know-Nothing, and non-affiliated people who sided with the south like President John Tyler
- Nobody really cares, because the political parties today don't look anything like the political parties 150 years ago.