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  • Explanation: In 1865, Radical Republicans were called such because of their radically pro-civil rights platform, including the abolition of slavery and total legal equality for Black Americans. They were later be instrumental in passing Federal anti-segregation laws (which, unfortunately, were struck down by the Supreme Court).

    ... I could not guarantee the same for 2021 'radical' Republicans.

    • the slavery/anti-slavery thing was always a north-south thing, not a democrat-republican thing. Republicans were powerful in the north and then their base shifted to people from the south. Democrats shifted northward. As they shifted, so did their stance on things.

      • The Republican Party was formed, explicitly, as an anti-slavery party.

      • During reconstruction and until Jim Crow, the Republicans had a base in the South. And limited government and regulation isn’t a geographical belief but flipped between the two parties anyways, even before the Southern strategy, as we can see in the 20s. Northern Democratic Party was always a thing, and in fact its splitting of the vote against Southern Democrats was one of the reasons Lincoln won his first election.

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