Then you don't care about truth or reality. The truth is the Democratic party was split with the Dixiecrats of the South that were racists. Over the course of a couple of decades, those Dixiecrats became Republican and that's how the South has become the bastion of conservative racism and Republicanism and the Democrats became the weaned of racist conservatives and a more pure liberal party and the Republicans gradually were overcome with the conservative and racist attitudes we see today. In other words, the Democrats got rid of the disease of conservativism and racism, and the Republicans adopted it and created a reversal of philosophy.

It's true, neither party can be painted because there ARE so many shades of gray. Lincoln is revered and admired including by myself for his emancipation of the slaves, by his being able to hold the country together in it's toughest time. FDR as well. With all of Kennedy's personal faults evidence suggests he was planning on getting us out of Vietnam before it became the quaqmire it became at the cost of so many lives. Yet it was another Democrat in Johnson that created the hell it became for which this country is still suffering. But to take one segment of history, one fact and say ''well because this was so it's still so'' is both naive' and ignorant. Times have changed, philosophies have changed. Again, would the great general and president that was Eisenhower have even been nominated by todays Republican party? Read his quote and tell me that today's Republicans align themselves with that philosophy or is it Democrats. Yesterday doesn't matter except to learn the history of our successe's and failures. That's where we are today and tomorrow it may change by the success's and failures of today. That Lincoln was a GOP is irrelevant today. Who the KKK stemmed from is irrelevant in that if an honest survey were done of today's KKK one would probably find an overwhelming number of conservatives which are usually conservative rather than liberals or Dem's. The inherent philosophy of a conservative is to avoid change, to keep things the way they were in the past while the liberal philosophy it to examine new ideas and change and see if that will bring us a better society or world. That's why things have changed. That's why today's conservatives and Republicans have rejected Eisenhowers' philosophy in such white and black colors--no pun intended.