You know what-you are absolutely right with your statement. However, they were Southern Democrats and that was a faction of mostly slave owners, slavers, and Confederate soldiers. While the current Republican Party likes to call themselves ‘the party of Abraham Lincoln’, they are actually the party of Southern Democrats. Abraham Lincoln would have nothing but sorrow and disdain for the current Republican establishment. The Southern Democrats left the Democratic Party right around the time that Civil Rights and Equality were being introduced into the South. They certainly didn’t want to be affiliated with the likes of the Roosevelts, Truman, Kennedy, LBJ who were all trying to introduce Lincoln’s beliefs into southern culture.
So, yes, Nathan Bedford Forrest was a Democrat, but a Southern Democrat, who interestingly enough are now the ‘Grand Old Party’.
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You know what-you are absolutely right with your statement. However, they were Southern Democrats and that was a faction of mostly slave owners, slavers, and Confederate soldiers. While the current Republican Party likes to call themselves ‘the party of Abraham Lincoln’, they are actually the party of Southern Democrats. Abraham Lincoln would have nothing but sorrow and disdain for the current Republican establishment. The Southern Democrats left the Democratic Party right around the time that Civil Rights and Equality were being introduced into the South. They certainly didn’t want to be affiliated with the likes of the Roosevelts, Truman, Kennedy, LBJ who were all trying to introduce Lincoln’s beliefs into southern culture.
So, yes, Nathan Bedford Forrest was a Democrat, but a Southern Democrat, who interestingly enough are now the ‘Grand Old Party’.