[MasterGunner01]

If the Donkeys want to hang their hats on Republicans being racists, then how was it that the Republican Party was formed as an abolitionist (anti-slavery) party? Its first President, Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves in the states in rebellion, then the Republicans went on to make all slaves free, make them citizens, and give them the right to vote. The Republicans were behind numerous Civil Rights Acts and were a clear majority for the 1964 Civil Rights Act in both House and Senate.

Who are the racists? The Democratic Party that were slave masters before the Civil War, organized the Ku Klux Klan post-CW, were responsible for Jim Crow Laws in the South, resegregated the Federal Government (thanks to racist President Woodrow Wilson), were the segregationist Dixiecrats, and had as heroes George Wallace, Bull Connor, Lester Maddox, and William Fulbright. The Democrat Party was and is the party of slavery and intolerance. However, that fact is irrelevant to Donkey true belivers.

[MuttTheHoople]

The Democratic Party that were slave masters before the Civil War

Not completely true. There WERE some Whig slaveowners. What were Whigs? They were 19th Century versions of Moderate Republicans, ie, GOP-e.