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Actually, if you are referring to nation's earliest "Democrats", that is, the party formed in the 1790s around Madison & Jefferson - they usually called themselves "Republicans"! (The other major party of the time was the "Federalists".) By the 1810s they sometimes used the term "Democratic-Republicans". (Many history texts, inaccurately act as if this compound name was the standard in the early days, probably to help readers keep clear that they are not referring to the later "Republican" party formed in the mid-1850s.) "Democrats" all by itself only became the standard when one group within this party organized behind Andrew Jackson in the 1820s.
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Democrats have emphasized?
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