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<blockquote data-quote="BrownArmy" data-source="post: 2013109" data-attributes="member: 18225"><p><a href="https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-Democrats-used-to-be-the-conservative-party-and-Republicans-used-to-be-the-progressive-party" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Is it true that Democrats used to be the conservative party and Republicans used to be the progressive party?</strong></span></a></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px">From the first answer on the link:</span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px"><em><span style="font-size: 12px">"I teach history for a living. What you've learned is accurate. </span></em></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px"><em><span style="font-size: 12px">Understanding this has to do more with understanding U.S. political history in general. </span></em></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px"><em><span style="font-size: 12px">The republicans were a new party in Lincoln's day. They were a conglomeration of various northern former Whig constituencies and people that wanted to develop the west that coalesced due to issues surrounding slavery. Generally speaking, they retained a lot of the older Whig economic views that the government should be involved in the economy. It should promote policies that promote growth, they thought. That meant financing infrastructure, education, protecting native industries, policies that promoted commerce and rapid job growth. They did believe in more federal involvement in all these things, and it cost money. They were the forward looking, innovative party, and also vaguely speaking they were the "big government" party and had policies that promoted big banks, big industry, big business..."</span></em></span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: 15px">The answer continues and is worth reading.</span></span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: 15px">It's simplistic to call the modern Republican party the 'party of Lincoln'.</span></span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: 15px">If Lincoln were alive today, it would be difficult to determine which party he would belong to, and probably a useless exercise - let's leave Lincoln in his time and live in ours.</span></span></span></span></p><p></p></blockquote><p></p>
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