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Republicans support government grants to faith-based and private charitable organizations.
They opposes universal health care.
They oppose labor unions..
They oppose increasing the minimum wage.
They have supported various bills to strip some or all federal courts of the ability to hear certain types of cases. These have included removing federal review of the recognition of same-sex marriage, the constitutionality of the Pledge of Allegiance,, and the rights of detainees in Guantanamo Bay.
The Supreme Court overruled the last of these limitations in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.
Republicans support increased oil drilling in protected areas such as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
They favor faith-based initiatives.
They are against affirmative action for women and minorities..
They favor capital punishment..
They oppose laws regulating guns.
They have denounced the public school system and the teachers' unions.
They opposed the creation of the United States Department of Education when it was created in 1979.
They have supported prayer in public schools
They have backed the teaching of intelligent design in science classes.
They are pro-life and oppose abortion on religious or moral grounds.
They oppose the federal funding of embryonic stem cell research because it involves the destruction of human embryos, while arguing for applying research money into adult stem cell or amniotic stem cell research. President Bush, who said the research "crossed a moral boundary"
They supported a Federal Marriage Amendment to the United States Constitution defining marriage as between one man and one woman.
They opposed government recognition of same-sex unions.
They have opposed LGBT people serving openly in the military.
They opposed Woodrow Wilson's intervention in World War I and his attempt to create the League of Nations.
They opposed the intervention in World War II until Pearl Harbor.
They formed an international coalition to expel Iraq. The war was short, but Hussein was allowed to remain in power.
They led an international coalition into Afghanistan, the base of terrorist Osama bin Laden.The U.S killed bin Laden in 2011 under the leadership of President Obama.
They support unilateralism on issues of national security, believing the ability and right of the United States to act without external support in matters of its national defense.
They have denounced other countries with examples such as Reagan's Evil Empire stance on the Soviet Union and George W. Bush's Axis of evil.
They beieve in the doctrine of preemptive war, wars to disarm and destroy potential military foes based on speculation of future attacks rather than in defense against actual attack.
They are usually seen as the traditionally pro-business party and it garners support from a wide variety of industries from the financial sector to small businesses.
They are more likely to work in management.
They historically were the party had been supporters of rights for blacks since the 1860s, it lost its leadership position.
They do not fall under favor with most black voters. Most black voters switched to the Democratic Party in the 1930s when the New Deal offered them employment opportunities, and major figures, such as Eleanor Roosevelt, began to support civil rights.
They are known for a strong anti-communist stance.
They have opposed same-sex marriage, adoption by same-sex couples, inclusion of sexual orientation in federal hate crimes laws, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, while supporting the use of the don't ask, don't tell policy within the military.
For decades, a greater percentage of white voters identified themselves as Democrats, rather than Republicans.
Low-income voters tend to favor the Democratic Party while high-income voters tend to support the Republican Party.
Since 1980, large majorities of evangelicals have voted Republican;
As of 2010 Gallup polling found that 31% of Americans identified as Democrats, 29% as Republicans, and 38% as independents.
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They escalated the Cold War under Reagan. Reagan ordered a massive buildup of the United States Armed Forces accelerating a reversal from the policy of détente, which began in 1979 under President Jimmy Carter following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
Under a policy that came to be known as the Reagan Doctrine, Reagan and his administration also provided overt and covert aid to anti-communist resistance movements in an effort to "rollback" Soviet-backed communist governments in Africa, Asia and Latin America. This was done my providing Afghanistan soldiers weaopons against the Soviets.
In 2006, the Bush White House supported and Republican-led Senate comprehensive immigration reform that would eventually allow millions of illegal i

