In fact, support for the “freedom agenda” within the Republican Party was almost entirely accidental. Most Republicans supported the “freedom agenda” because they supported Bush ...

While there is no precise date for the beginning of the Democratic party, its origin can be traced to the late 1700s when Thomas Jefferson's Democratic-Republican party organized opposition to the ...

The Republican Party were not popular in the South. Southerners believed that they wished to abolish slavery. In the 1860 election the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln won all the Northern states.