Sure, and then the "party of Lincoln" spent the next century courting the same segregationists with the Southern Strategy. Funny how that part never makes the thread.
161 years ago, Republican President Abraham Lincoln and a Republican Congress freed the slaves from the Democrat Party that fought tooth and nail to keep them in chains.
Democrats started the Civil War to preserve slavery. Democrats founded the KKK. Democrats passed Jim Crow laws. Democrats filibustered the Civil Rights Act.
Today if you are celebrating Juneteenth, donβt forget to thank Republicans!