American history: Democrats where the right wing in the past

No. Roughly speaking...

Democrats = Populists
GOP = Business/Industrialists

>>3254696
They didn't

>>3254696
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_South
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

>>3254716
I like that explanation.
In the past, the vast majority of American were living in rural communities and provided a base for Democrats. Meanwhile the Republicans were always supported by big business.

>>3254772
>>3254716
Slavery was arguably the biggest business ever (no wages) yet were backed by the then Democratic Party. Stop being a partisan hack and look at reality you piece of garbage.
Hint: you can acknowledge this while also realizing that modern democrats are nothing like their 19th century counterparts

>>3254696
>Democrats where the right wing in the past and republicans the leftists?
That wasn't the case at all. Read a book.

>>3254788
I don't know what you're talking about.
The Republican industrialists wanted slavery contained.ended so 1) valuable western land wasn't used up by outdated slave plantations and 2) black labor could be used in factories.
Pro-slavery (usually Southern but some Northern) Democrats painted themselves as the "state's rights party" and defending the interests of the "little" yeoman against big business interests.

The parties were big tents with both conservative and liberal wings until fairly recently.

>>3254696
LBJ embraced the welfare state to chain the blacks into the democrat party for the next hundred years.

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>>3254696

The Left-Right paradigm didn't really exist in the 19th Century, you could see what would be considered elements left and right wing beliefs in the doctrine of bot parties.

Ex. Republican abolitionists being Pat Robertson-tier religious fanatics and proslavery Fire Eaters being avowed fedora-tipping Atheists.