Please don't take HN threads into partisan flamewar. Obviously the last thing we need.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: I had to warn you about this just 5 days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23305113), and it looks like you've been using HN primarily for political battle, which is against the site guidelines. (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...)

If you don't stop abusing HN like this we will have to ban you, so please stop.

And the Democratic party of today is not the democratic party of yesteryear. Ignoring the fact that the parties have changed their stance on things since then makes the comment seriously fraught with errors and misleading at best.

Republicans, after defeating the South and ending slavery entered a state of moral exhaustion in the 1870s and 1880s. Tired of constantly fighting battles for other's civil rights...

After the Grant administration, Republican presidents focused a lot more on business and the wealthy northeast. They turned a blind eye to Democrat shenanigans

So frankly we're all culpable whether through direct action or choosing to ignore the problem

Yes it was, and that was shameful and wrong. It was also a century and a half ago. Sixty years back or so, the Democratic party literally split in half over exactly this issue, with the Dixiecrat demographic leaving to find its own path (I'll let you guess where).

The party of modern civil rights legislation is absolutely the democrats. People who want to talk about antebellum history instead of actual policy choices are just trying to obscure the truth instead of discuss it.