What should be considered regarding the Democratic party being the party of slavery and republicans fighting against it is that those were different times and since that period the two parties values and beliefs swapped. What is obvious is that the people who were racist democrats of that time now have the values of racist republicans of today.
Politics is a game... a disgusting and immoral one. The ideals of the KKK are the same since inception. The ideals of the de.ocratic party are not
I am not a Democrat or a Republican.