Can democrats (progressives) please correct this history. It must be wrong?

[rickie]

Democratic Party platforms supporting slavery. There were six from 1840 through 1860.

Democratic presidents who owned slaves. There were seven from 1800 through 1861

Democratic Party platforms that either supported segregation outright or were silent on the subject. There were 20, from 1868 through 1948.

The reason Rosa Parks became famous is that she sat in the "whites only" front section of a bus, the "whites only" designation the direct result of Democrats.

According to Columbia University historian Eric Foner, became "a military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party." Nor is there reference to University of North Carolina historian Allen Trelease's description of the Klan as the "terrorist arm of the Democratic Party."

Democrats opposed the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution. The 13th banned slavery. The 14th effectively overturned the infamous 1857 Dred Scott decision (made by Democratic pro-slavery Supreme Court justices) by guaranteeing due process and equal protection to former slaves. The 15th gave black Americans the right to vote.

Democrats opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1866. It was passed by the Republican Congress over the veto of President Andrew Johnson, who had been a Democrat before joining Lincoln's ticket in 1864. The law was designed to provide blacks with the right to own private property, sign contracts, sue and serve as witnesses in a legal proceeding.

Democrats' opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1875. It was passed by a Republican Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses Grant. The law prohibited racial discrimination in public places and public accommodations.

Democrats' 1904 platform, which devotes a section to "Sectional and Racial Agitation," claiming the GOP's protests against segregation and the denial of voting rights to blacks sought to "revive the dead and hateful race and sectional animosities in any part of our common country," which in turn "means confusion, distraction of business, and the reopening of wounds now happily healed."
four Democratic platforms, 1908-20, that are silent on blacks, segregation, lynching and voting rights as racial problems in the country mount. By contrast the GOP platforms of those years specifically address "Rights of the *****" (1908), oppose lynching (in 1912, 1920, 1924, 1928) and, as the New Deal kicks in, speak out about the dangers of making blacks "wards of the state."

Democratic Convention of 1924, known to history as the "Klanbake." The 103-ballot convention was held in Madison Square Garden. Hundreds of delegates were members of the Ku Klux Klan, the Klan so powerful that a plank condemning Klan violence was defeated outright. To celebrate, the Klan staged a rally with 10,000 hooded Klansmen in a field in New Jersey directly across the Hudson from the site of the convention. Attended by hundreds of cheering convention delegates, the rally featured burning crosses and calls for violence against African-Americans and Catholics.

Democrats who segregated the federal government, at the direction of President Woodrow Wilson upon taking office in 1913. There \is a reference to the fact that President Harry Truman integrated the military after World War II.

[jolie95]

Wow! Great job! I'm afraid that if any liberals take the time to read this, it will sent shock waves through the liberal community. They have gone out of their way to try to prove that they are the enlightened ones. Now they won't know what to do. I wonder how they will turn this around and blame it on conservatives. Having said all of that, I think you are right in saying that it must be wrong. It has to be a conspiracy by Bush and/or Palin to brainwash the American people.

[fenwick]

But, but, but ..........

You know they will just twist one part of your question to make it seem foolish and then insult you or report this question cause its rude/insulting content to them to provide facts that contradict their current beliefs.

[tate8]

Nixon invented welfare.

[teithi71]

Can you recognize the difference between Dixicrat and modern Democrat?

[calin]

they will claim that the parties switched places sometime between then and now

[eorl]

The Republicans of today were the Democrats of yesterday. You seem to like history, you should understand my point. Unless you aren't aware that millions of Southern Democrats turned to the Republican Party when they were put out that the Democrats in Washington were going to support desegregation.

EDIT: You seem to be intent on remaining ignorant. Good luck with that.

[warton26]

There have been several political realignments in the United States. I'm not going to waste my time explaining it to you but Google it and you should get your answer. In short, the Democratic and Republican party basically swapped their supporters over the years.

[albanwr26]

I'm not a fan of democrats, but I am a fan of history, and it should be noted that the policies, attitudes and even membership of both major parties have changed radically over the last 150 years.
The Democratic party that fought for State's Rights, and the Republican party that freed the slaves no longer exist.
Their modern counterparts are two very different beasts with completely different ideologies.