Northern Democrats supported civil rights and social welfare programs, while Southern Democrats supported segregation and states' rights. In the 1960s, Northern Democrats supported candidates like John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, while Southern Democrats supported candidates like George Wallace and Strom Thurmond.
The switch of ideologies between Republicans and Democrats occurred gradually over time, primarily starting in the mid-20th century. This transition was driven by shifting social, political, and economic factors, such as the Civil Rights Movement and the Southern Strategy. By the 1960s and 1970s, the parties' platforms had largely shifted to their current positions.
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The Democratic party split in 1860 over slavery, in particular the question of whether it would be allowed in the new states that might join the union.
pierce promised to honor the compromise of 1850 and the fugitive slave act.
cause they can
Dixiecrats were angry he supported civil rights. Storm Thurmond took the support of southern Democrats.
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The northern Democrats supported Stephen A. Douglas for President in 1860, but the southern Democrats withheld support for Douglas. The South demanded that Douglas repudiate the Freeport Doctrine and support a federal slave law. The Douglas supporters pointed out that to do that would drive the northern Democrats into the Republican Party.
The Northern and Southern Democrats differed over the party's platform on slavery in 1860 since the southerners wanted the party to defend slavery in the platform and Northerners wanted the platform to support popular sovereignty as a way of deciding whether a territory became a free state or a slave state.
By turning into Republicans.
They didn't support freedom for enslaved African Americans
The possibility of the spread of slavery in the US.
Because back around that time, there was no real divide between "Liberal" and "Conservative". Instead, the Republicans were most popular in the Northern States while the Democrats were most popular in the South, regardless of wealth. After the Civil War there was no slavery to support, but the 'Dixiecrats' (Southern Democrats) continued to refuse to support equal rights for freed slaves. For some time, Black Americans used to vote for Republicans because of Abraham Lincoln. It was Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal which persuaded them to support the Democrats, but the Democrats maintain the support of (racist) White Southerners until the 1960s.
Dixiecrats were angry he supported civil rights. (Apex)