Did you know?

• The US Republican Party was set up in 1854 as an anti slavery party
• The 1st Republican (of the current party) President was Abraham Lincoln
• In the 1857 Dred Scott case which decided negros were property not citizens, the only two dissenting judges were Republican and the seven majority judges were Democrats
• John Wilkes Booth was a Democrat
• The Democratic Party opposed the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery; the 14th Amendment, which gave blacks citizenship; and the 15th Amendment, which gave blacks the vote
• 22 black Republicans served in the US Congress by 1900. The Democrats did not elect a black man to Congress until 1935.
• The founder of the KKK, Nathan Bedford Forrest, was a Democrat
• The 1964 Civil Rights Act was supported by 80% of Republicans in Congress and less than 70% of Democrats
• A Democratic Senator filibustered the Civil Rights Act for 75 days

I follow US politics a lot but I wasn’t aware of all of this.