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Originally Posted by Napolean
I thought the republican party was a LOT different back then, what the republican party is now, is what the whig party was back then.
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Yep... The Republican Party of today is vastly different than the Republican party of History. It was created to stop the expansion of slavery.... now, it seems that "fighting terrorism" is its main goal.
This is due to many reasons, but none as significant as Reagan, who for all intents and purposes reinvented the party in the 1980's - changing it into a totally different animal than it was before.
A guy named Gould wrote a pretty solid book on the subject of the evolution of the Republican Party - he's a professor... I think from Harvard, if I remember correctly.
He noted that the only real uniformity in the party throughout its time has been its dislike for Democrats.
