In the following decade, the fragile consensus between American slave states and free states collapsed, making the country’s breakup inevitable and accelerating the rise of the new, anti-slavery Republican party. Abraham Lincoln’s election in 1860 gave Republicans the White House and was..…

Lyman filed for Republican Mike Noel’s Utah House District 73 seat after the long-time southern Utah firebrand decided to step down. ..…

The Roosevelt coalition of the 1930s-1940s included class-conscious workers of all colors, but the Democratic majorities in Congress depended on the presence of southern “Dixiecrats” who rejected racial equality and detested the CIO. Today, Donald Trump’s Republican Party presents..…

Members of the Church of the Nazarene are overwhelmingly likely to favor the GOP (63% Republican vs. 24% Democrat), as are the Southern Baptist Convention (64% vs. 26%) and the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (59% vs. 27%), among other evangelical churches. ..…

She is a former Southern Baptist and Republican. . … . Pat Robertson, speaking on The 700 Club yesterday, had an incredibly flippant response to Donald Trump‘s caught-on-a-hot-mic moment in which he bragged about being famous enough to get away with forcing himself onto women. . . ..…

(In fact, the Smith amendment passed the House by a vote of 168–133, with support coming mostly from Republicans and southern Democrats.) . ..…

The Northern wing of the Democrats were built around urban political machines that depended on votes from working people, but the Southern slaveocracy called the shots within the party. . . A Republican campaign newspaper celebrates Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 The Whigs were the..…

Republicans, addition to featuring all-star cast of party figures, appear to be rerunning the strategy that unseated another Southern Democrat last month.. ..…

Hoyer of Southern Maryland, the Democratic whip, teamed with Republican Rep. ..…

Powell Jr., dominant figure on Supreme Court whose voice remained calm amid even the fiercest constitutional tempests, died at his Richmond yesterday. ..…

Although the House remained under Democratic control (243 to 192), their margin was actually much slimmer, because many southern “boll weevil” Democrats voted with the Republicans. . ..…

For a few years “radical” Republicans dominated the governments of the Southern States and Negroes played a substantial political role. ..…

Over the years southern Democrats switched to the Republican Party, Pacheco said. . ..…

The Democrats were only partially supportive of civil rights in the 60′s (with southern Democrats advocating “segregation forever”).  Lincoln was a Republican, and Republicans in the House and Senate voted for civil rights legislation in the 60s. . ..…

However cynical, Johnson's overture to Southern Blacks was intolerable to the party's Southern wing. ... This was the origins of the Republicans' 'Southern strategy'--appealing to white conservatives in a backlash against the civil rights movement. . ..…

Attacks on Furman, like the related vigorous and continuing criticism of liberal Warren Court decisions protecting the rights of criminal defendants and minority voters, were an important part of the Republican Party’s “Southern strategy.” ..…

Since then, there has been rapid growth in Republican identification among both Southern and non-Southern evangelicals. Nationwide, Republican identification among white evangelicals increased from 39% in 1999 to 48% today. ..…

And she is unlikely to be a Southern evangelical, which very strongly predicts Republican voting, at least recently. . ..…