The Republican party of the 1950's and 60's was much different than the 1860's version. FDR's New Deal caused most African Americans to start moving to the Democrats; and after the GOP lost many elections because of the New Deal, it started moving to the right under leaders such as Senator Robert Taft. The Conservative Democrats from the South joined these Republicans in opposition to New Deal policies, and the modern parties as we know them were formed.
the republican party.
they fought against expanding civil rights
Southern Dixiecrats were a faction of conservative Southern Democrats who opposed civil rights initiatives in the mid-20th century. They were segregationists who supported maintaining white supremacy in the South. The Dixiecrats split from the Democratic Party in the 1948 presidential election to form the States' Rights Democratic Party.
Horace Greeley
He was the Democratic candidate in 1988, against Republican George H.W. Bush.
One might follow Democratic ideas for many reasons, They might be democratic because they were raised in a democratic family or rebel against republican parents. If they believe in community responsibility and social justice VS the Republican view of individual responsibility, they might be democratic.
The candidate for the Democratic-Republican Party in the election of 1796 was Thomas Jefferson. He ran against John Adams of the Federalist Party and ultimately became the vice-president after Adams won the presidency.
The supporters of Jackson became the democrats. The supporters of Adams became the National Republicans. The two-party system created with the election of 1828 were National Republican and Democratic Republican.
The Dixiecrat party was a segregationist, populist, socially conservative splinter party of the Democratic Party in the mid-20th century who were determined to protect what they saw as the Southern "way of life" against what they perceived as an oppressive federal government.
Republican and Democratic views can vary. Conservatives (Republicans) are generally very against any government expansion while liberals (Democrats) are generally in favor of federal or state government expansion.
Horace Greeley was a cranky newspaper editor who carried the liberal republican and democratic banners against Grant. He was the founder and editor of the New York Tribune and a vocal critic of President Ulysses S. Grant's administration. Greeley ran for president in 1872 as the nominee of the Liberal Republican Party and the Democratic Party, but lost to Grant.
Donald Trump is a Republican candidate. Democrats generally support members of the Democratic party.