{"id":1553,"date":"2005-03-21T13:43:05","date_gmt":"2005-03-21T20:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/the-republican-party-had-almost-no-following-in-the-south\/"},"modified":"2005-03-21T13:43:05","modified_gmt":"2005-03-21T20:43:05","slug":"the-republican-party-had-almost-no-following-in-the-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/the-republican-party-had-almost-no-following-in-the-south\/","title":{"rendered":"the Republican Party had almost no following in the South &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; until Democrats endorsed Civil Rights.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Writer's Almanac - MARCH 14 - 20, 2005\" href=\"http:\/\/writersalmanac.publicradio.org\/docs\/2005\/03\/14\/#sunday\">The Writer&#8217;s Almanac &#8211; MARCH 20, 2005<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was on this day in 1854 that the Republican Party was founded. The name &#8220;Republican&#8221; was first used many years before, by Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s political party, the Democratic Republican Party. That name was shortened to the Democratic Party, which is what we call it today. The present-day Republican Party was formed by opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, and by members of other parties, like the Democratic and Whig parties, who disagreed with their parties&#8217; positions on slavery. <b>By 1855, the Republican Party was thriving in the North, while it had almost no following in the South.<\/b> The Republican Party&#8217;s second candidate for President of the United States was Abraham Lincoln, who was elected in 1860.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; until Democrats endorsed Civil Rights. The Writer&#8217;s Almanac &#8211; MARCH 20, 2005 It was on this day in 1854 that the Republican Party was founded. The name &#8220;Republican&#8221; was first used many years before, by Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s political party, the Democratic Republican Party. That name was shortened to the Democratic Party, which is what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/the-republican-party-had-almost-no-following-in-the-south\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">the Republican Party had almost no following in the South &#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}