Quote Originally Posted by jamstigator
Didn't the Republican Party arise out of the south, and wasn't it comprised largely of racist white men and successionists? Ah yes, it was. That would then make the Republican Party primarily responsible for the millions of deaths during the Civil War, and thus make them the biggest killer of Americans ever, moreso than every terrorist organization on the planet combined.

Yup, rhetoric rocks.
Umm, as much as I hate to say it, you got it backwards.

""To stop the Democrats' pro-slavery agenda, anti-slavery activists founded the Republican party, starting with a few dozen men and women in Ripon, Wisconsin on March 20, 1854," the calendar notes. "Democratic opposition to Republican efforts to protect the civil rights of all Americans lasted not only throughout Reconstruction, but well into the 20th century. In the south, those Democrats who most bitterly opposed equality for blacks founded the Ku Klux Klan, which operated as the party's terrorist wing."

Although I would be willing to bet that most Klan members today are card carrying Republicans.