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[@Dinh AaronMk]
I'm not absolutely stating that person's intentions, though I highly doubt someone could say that without some hedonistic angle to it, especially since he was often a liar, though I am with many of the other people that have said similar things that are completely glossed over. Just noting I already posted a video about this, but the parties didn't switch ideologies or sides. Maybe you just mean people can change their opinion and you're implying that's what he did. And I agree with that sentiment, but in this day of irrational political belief, you cannot change yourself or the evils of racism. (As I had already discussed once before.)

Also now suddenly people are actually siting sources for things while talking? Better late than never...

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No, parties can and do change. It's in the historical record that the Democratic part was - at least in the South - the party of slavery, where as the Republican Party was what would be today's civil rights party. But since Kennedy and the alienation of southern voters via the Civil Rights act the South switched to the Republican party and picked up the mannerisms and coarse of action of the old-party Democratic conservatives in the regions.

The whole dichotomy is easily visually expressed in comparative ads.

1860's Democrats:
[img]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/9f/fc/e3/9ffce33e98a3d6127fe8cace0dcf42fd.jpg[/img]
[img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Racistcampaignposter1.jpg[/img]

1960's Democrats:
[img]http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/scriptorium/americavotes/jfk-civilrights-flyer.jpeg[/img]
[img]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/dd/6c/3c/dd6c3c4bf71813d2123328631cd96b88.jpg[/img]

In the space of a century the party changed considerably in a north-lead re-alignment and in a matter of speaking became what the Republican Party under Lincoln and Grant.