Column: GOP made a slow but startling transition from Lincoln to Trump
How did Abraham Lincoln’s Republican Party become Donald Trump’s party? It’s a long time coming, former ODU vice president ...
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Byron G. Curtis: I'm ashamed to be a Republican
I’m a 46-year member of the Republican Party, nearly all my adult life. My father and my grandfather — Republicans. Family legend has it that way back in the 1850s, in the dangerous days of ...
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Slavery and the Civil WarRise of the Republican Party in the 1850s
The Republican Party were not popular in the South. Southerners believed that they wished to abolish slavery. In the 1860 election the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln won all the Northern states.
What Does ‘GOP’ Stand For?
The Republican Party, on the other hand, dates back to the 1850s. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED)’s oldest example of ...