And yet --- I just had a wag ( 2aguy ) try to tell me "the Democrats started the Civil War and fought the Republicans".
You'd like to say it was war between north and south, but in reality, it was war between Republicans and Democrats.
Might want to essplain the War Democrats then.
Might want to essplain Lincoln's running mate too.
You should read your history books then and realize Lincoln wanted a Democrat to bring the nation back together but let be clear Johnson was Lincoln second VP and not the VP during the North and South war...
Correct. I don't need to re-read all that, I already know.
It all serves to undermine the previous poster's fantasy that, quote, "it was war between Republicans and Democrats". Had that been the case the Republican could not have taken one of the "enemy" for his running mate. Nor does it explain the War Democrats who lived in, and fought for, the North. What kind of army recruits from the "enemy"?
Bullshit liar!
The South was Diehard Democrat and you know this!
Also you had to look it up to see if I was correct and Lincoln did not actually run as a Republican during his second term!
You didn't even make that point, and I don't need to look ANY of this up.
Lincoln and Johnson ran under what they called the "National Union Party", which was just contrived for the occasion. Doesn't mean Lincoln wasn't still a Republican -- they're not mutually exclusive.
And NO, the South was, AGAIN, NOT diehard Democrat until AFTER the War. Largely as a revulsion to "the party of Lincoln". Lincoln was not a player in all of this BEFORE the War.
Go ahead, look it up. I don't need to. I know these myths backward and forward.