Deep Dive : Democrat Party Long Racist History

Both parties have legacies worth exposing; this page looks specifically at Democrats. Click here for Republicans.

Introduction

The modern narrative paints Democrats as longtime champions of equality, but history tells a very different story. Despite marketing themselves as inclusive, the party has often silenced dissent and enforced conformity under the banner of progress.

From defending and promoting slavery and segregation to opposing civil rights, the Democratic Party’s roots are deeply entwined with racism. Even today, policies like resisting school choice and reviving race-based divisions are framed as progress but often deepen societal rifts.

Attempts to remove historical monuments and rewrite the past conveniently hide the party’s own legacy of slavery and systemic oppression. Tellingly, their own website, Democrats.org, omits the party’s first 100 years, defined by pro-slavery policies and racial injustice roots.

While claiming to support the working class, today’s Democrats often align with elite interests, using identity politics to maintain control and distract us all from uncomfortable truths.

Preface on Slavery:

Slavery dates back through all of human history, with all races having been enslaved at one time – Link
Slavery was so common that as much as 30% of commerce worldwide was built on slavery.
Native American tribes practiced slavery long before and after contact with Europeans.
Tribes held African slaves, with plantations similar to Southern whites.
US Slave Traders did not hunt down, capture, and export slaves to the USA. They were purchased from other African Nationals who captured slaves from rival tribes.
The African slave trade did NOT end. it exists today, rebranded as modern slavery & human trafficking
7 million slaves exist TODAY in AFRICA. – Link
1 to 1.25 million (Robert Davis estimate) White slaves were captured and enslaved in Africa – 1500s to early 1800s Link
Whites were enslaved by the Barbary Coast Trade, but also some by Transatlantic & Arab Trades – Link

This painting from the 17th Century shows ransom being paid to free white slaves.

Democrats (Blue) vs Republicans (Red):

- Black font is neutral
- Red font is Republican/Conservatives
- Blue font is Democrat/Liberals

US History Timeline:

1530 – 1780: Barbary Slave Trade – African traders from Tunis, Algiers, and Tripoli enslaved 1 to 1.25 million (Robert Davis estimate) White Slaves in Africa. – Link
1619: Africans sold other Africans to the slave traders.
1619 – 1865: 4.75% of the US population – only 15 states associated had slave owners (not all states).
1816: Abolitionists began opposing slavery, seeing it as an abomination. Most abolitionists are WHITE. Link
1828: Democratic party gets its “Pro-slavery” start, a platform of individual rights, state sovereignty, and support of slavery. – link
1830: “Black Masters” – 3,775 slave owners were BLACK in the South owned an estimated 12,760 slaves. –Link

1832: The Democrats-Republican Party, under Andrew Jackson, dropped ‘Republican’ from the name and became simply the “Democratic” Party
1833: England passes the Slavery Abolition Act
1848: France abolishes Slavery
1854: Northern “Whig Party” becomes the Anti-Slavery Republican Party
1857: U.S. Supreme Court rules slaves are “NOT citizens“.
- Republicans voted against the ruling
- Democrats voted for the ruling and succeeded
1860: Republican Pres Lincoln elected Republican, AKA the “Anti Slavery Party.“
- - 7 southern slave states seceded from the Union
  - Democrats started the Civil War, including “southern” pro-slavery Whigs

1861 Republicans attempted Reparations, or here called “retribution” in the context of punishing the Confederacy and its supporters after the Civil War. Republicans, who dominated Congress during Reconstruction, pushed for severe penalties against former Confederates. They sought to redistribute land, strip Confederates of political power, and enforce civil rights for freed slaves as a form of retributive justice.
Republicans have made a few attempts for reparations when it was able to affect those it hurt directly in the 1800s. Today, Liberals have pushed for reparations since the Civil Rights era (long past such a time frame). That said, if we can ask for reparations from the past, can a German-born American request reparations from the Roman Empire, the Vikings, the Ottoman Empire? How about Africans from the slave trade to pay back for the white slaves including Germans enslaved in the 1600’s as well?
1861 Republicans Confiscation Acts – Allowed the Union to seize Confederate property, including land and slaves, as a punishment for rebellion.
1863: Republican Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are henceforward shall be free.” – Link
1875: Republicans have their First Hispanic Governor, Romualdo Pacheco of California. Dems wouldn’t until 1917 (Ezequiel Cabeza de Baca of New Mexico).
1864: The 1st “Party Switching” claim:

The Parties did not switch but did have different goals for a new country (ex, Big gov vs Little gov)
They never exchanged views on social rights or slavery rights.
- Republicans – In favor of a strong national government and federal spending on internal improvements including initial “big” government, pro-income tax, social reform, and pro-economic intervention that more or less match up to contemporary Democratic policies.
- Democrats – In favor of small “limited” government, pro-localism, and pro-states’ rights, which bear a striking resemblance to the contemporary Republican agenda today.

1865: Republicans pass the 13th Amendment, which permanently outlaws slavery.
1865: Republican White Men lead the world in putting an end to slavery in England, France, and then finally the USA. – Link
1865: Democrat KKK Confederate soldiers from the Ku Klux Klan quickly focused on terrorizing blacks & white Republicans.
1866: Republicans begin reconstruction to fix the nasty problem the Democrats created:
- - Republicans promised retribution of “40 acres and a mule” to former slaves.
  - Democrats reject it.
Republicans’ Disenfranchisement of Confederates – Many Southern leaders were barred from voting or holding office during Reconstruction.

1867 Republicans Military Reconstruction Act (1867) – Divided the South into military districts, forcing ex-Confederate states to adopt new constitutions that included Black suffrage before rejoining the Union.
1868: Republicans pass the 14th Amendment, ratifying citizenship to all persons born in the USA
- Democrats opposed it
1872: Republican P.B.S. Pinchback becomes acting governor of Louisiana, the first Black American to serve as a governor. (Dems elect their first Black governor, Douglas Wilder, in 1989)
1868: Democrats The Confederate general, believed to be the KKK’s first Grand Dragon, speaks at the DNC.

1869: Republicans passed the 15th Amendment, giving black people the right to vote.
- - Democratic not a single one supported the bill
1869: Democrats use intimidation at the polls to discourage black voters.
- - Democrats Tactics include poll taxes, registration fraud, and literacy tests to prevent blacks from voting for nearly a century.
  - Democrats leave Winchester rifles strategically dispersed near important voting precincts (2020 BLM riots, brick being planted Link )
1870 : Republicans Hiram R. Revels, Republican of Mississippi, was sworn in as the first African American member of the U.S. Senate and the first ever to serve in the U.S. Congress.

1871: Republican President Grant dismantled the KKK and used the military to enforce laws to put an end to the Confederacy. Link

1872: Republicans elect the first African American senators and representatives.
- Hiram Revels (R-MS)
- Benjamin S. Turner (R-AL)
- Robert DeLarge (R-SC)
- Josiah Walls (R-FL)
- Jefferson Long (R-GA)
- Joseph Rainey (R-SC)
- Robert B. Elliott (R-SC)
- William Holden (R-NC) fought vigorously against the KKK.
  - Afterward, white Democrats impeached him.
1874: Republican Joseph Rainey becomes the first Black member to preside over the House (speaker pro tempore).
- He was also the first black person to serve in the United States House of Representatives.
1878: Republican Senator Aaron Sargent from California introduces the 19th Amendment in Congress to give women the right to vote. – Link
- Democrat-controlled Congress voted it out.
- Democrats battle the 19th Amendment and opposed it for several decades.

1884: Republicans invite John Roy Lynch, a former slave, to chair the Republican National Convention.
1888: Republican plank includes an affirmation that the “sovereign right of every lawful citizen, rich or poor, native or foreign-born, white or black, to cast one free ballot in public elections, and to have that ballot duly counted.”
1892: Republican platform specifically condemned the “inhuman outrages perpetrated upon American citizens for political reasons in the certain Southern States of the Union.”
1896: Republicans are the first major party to favor women’s suffrage, and by 1896, three states had full suffrage for women, though it wasn’t until 1919 that women got the right to vote nationwide.
1913: Democratic President Woodrow Wilson, the father of income tax, stuffs his cabinet with Dixiecrats and sets back the cause of civil rights for decades with federal segregation.
1915: Democratic President Woodrow Wilson airs the racially charged “Birth of a Nation” movie in the White House.
1916: Democrat President Wilson opposes women’s suffrage, and women picket outside the White House.

1916: Republican Jeannette Rankin is elected the first woman to serve Congress.
- Also, the 1st woman was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and was affectionately called the “Lady of the House.” Dems followed up in 2007
1918: Democratic Ku Klux Klan rises by targeting Jews, Catholics, and immigrants in addition to blacks.
1918: Republicans introduce the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill. – Link
- Republican Leonidas C. Dyer introduced H.R. 11279 to stop the lynchings, which were terrorizing Republicans and blacks to intimidate them into submission.
1918: Democratic President Wilson finally joins his daughter, leading suffragist Jessie W Wilson Sayre, in the women’s right to vote. His delay cost him political strife.

1919 – 1945 卐 Democrats vs Nazi Germany -A Shared Agenda

The left loves to call conservatives “fascists,” but when you compare actual behavior instead of labels, modern leftists behave much more like fascists than today’s conservatives do. It’s not about “left vs. right” anymore. It’s about authoritarianism vs. freedom.
So, Who’s Really the “Fascist” Today?

Category	🐴 Modern Democrats/Liberals	卐 Nazi Germany (1919-1945)
Collectivism	The group (race/class) is Greater than the individual	The group (state/nation) is Greater than the individual
Big Government	Expansion of Gov power, regulation, social control, state-led programs	State-led programs, centralized economy
Welfare State	Universal healthcare, guaranteed income, reparations	Provided healthcare, pensions, jobs for compliance
Economic Control	“Living wage,” ESG mandates, forced wealth redistribution	“Economic rights” (state-controlled wages, jobs)
Education Indoctrination	Public schools push CRT, gender ideology, historical revisionism	Nazi youth programs, controlled schooling
Censorship & Propaganda	Corporate censorship, cancel culture, deplatforming, state-run narratives	Controlled media, burned books, silenced dissenters
Racial Focus	DEI mandates, systemic racism narratives, demonization of “whiteness”	Aryan superiority, race-based policies
Militarized Mobs	BLM riots, Antifa, political intimidation of conservatives	Brownshirts (SA) attacking dissenters
Social Engineering	Racial law, forced compliance, race-based hiring, forced speech laws, trans ideology enforcement	Racial laws, forced compliance
Erasing & Rewriting History	Cancel culture, statue removal, rewriting textbooks, digital book bans, Omitting first 100 years of history on www.Democrats.org	Nazi book burnings, historical revisionism.
Religious Censorship	De-Christianization, progressive rewriting of biblical teachings, targeting traditional religious values	Attempted removal of the Old Testament, Nazi-controlled “Positive Christianity”

Both Nazis and modern liberals push race-based division, group identity over individual rights, and government control to shape society.
The only difference is which race is targeted. Learn More: LINK

“MAGA is explicitly a Nazi movement” – This is the laziest, most overused smear. Trump has Jewish grandchildren, signed historic pro-Israel agreements, and strengthened Holocaust education. Meanwhile, the left has been aligning itself with Hamas sympathizers.

Note: Members of the self-described “alt-right” movement are almost totally disconnected from the conservatism that we know today. They reject most mainstream conservative ideas, such as economics and foreign policy. Even left-leaning biased USA Today agrees -link here

1919-1920: Republican Congress passed the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote.
- Republican President Warren Harding =The first women voters from every state allowed to vote gave a victory to him
- Republican Women did not forget that Woodrow Wilson had initially opposed suffrage in 1917.
1921: Republican President Harding delivers a formal speech in Alabama condemning lynching.
1922: Democrats Successfully Stop Republicans From Making Lynching A Federal Crime by creating a filibuster in the U.S. Senate.
1924: Republican President Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act, granting full citizenship to America’s Indigenous people.
1926: Republican Bertha Landes becomes the first female mayor. Landes served Seattle, Washington, from 1926 to 1928.
1928: Republican Octaviano Larrazolo becomes the first Mexican American United States Senator.
1929: Republican Charles Curtis becomes the first Native American Vice President of the United States. He is Kansa, Osage Nation, and Potawatomi.
1933: Democratic President Roosevelt (FDR) had a New Deal that prolonged joblessness for millions, and black people were especially hard hit. It likely extended the Great Depression
- Democrats The New Deal gave jobs first to whites, paid blacks less than whites, and then segregated the Conservation Corps.
1939: Democrat and KKK CoverGirl Margaret Sanger created “The Negro Project” (her organization was rebranded as Planned Parenthood in 1942) to cull the black population, coded eugenics to eliminate the ‘unfit.’
1942: Democrat President Roosevelt sends 120,000 Japanese Americans to internment camps during WWII. – Link

Democrat Eugenics & Birth Control

1942 – Democrat-leaning Margaret Sanger’s American Birth Control League was rebranded as Planned Parenthood, solidifying her influence on reproductive policies. Later in 1960 sexual revolution: The FDA approved the first oral contraceptive pill
- Pro-Democrat progressive, Sanger actively promoted eugenics, advocating for population control targeting minorities, the poor, and the disabled.
- Her agenda contributed to the dismantling of the family unit, encouraging birth control as a tool for social engineering rather than just women’s empowerment.
- The rise of birth control reshaped gender roles, increasing government dependency while weakening traditional family structures, effects still debated today.
- There is a direct correlation between birth control and divorce rates

1967: Republican Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote the unanimous Loving v. Virginia ruling that ended miscegenation laws restricting interracial marriage.
- Republican Warren wrote: “Restricting the freedom to marry solely because of racial classifications violates the central meaning of the Equal Protection Clause.”
1948: Dixiecrats emerge as a breakaway faction of the Democratic Party determined to legislate racial segregation. Link
1948-1954: Democrat President Truman issues Executive Order 9981 to end segregation in the Armed Services.
- Democrats – The first integrated armed services began with the Korean War when heavy casualties forced segregated units to merge for survival.
- Democrats – The Army’s last segregated units were finally disbanded in 1954.
1950’s: Democrats – various Klans in the South acted as a “strong-arm” for many local Democratic politicians
1954: Republican lawmakers outlawed segregation in public schools by declaring that “separate but equal” public schools for black and white students were unconstitutional.
- Brown v. Board of Education legally ended, though some schools remained segregated.
- Democratic Governor of Arkansas, Orval E. Faubus, ordered the Arkansas National Guard to prevent black students from attending Little Rock Central High School.
- Republican President Eisenhower removed the National Guard from Democratic state control, then sent in Federal Troops ~ the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army to stop Faubus from the obstruction of justice.
1955: Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus
- Democrats in power largely upheld segregation and resisted desegregation efforts
- Republicans enforced desegregation rulings and sent federal troops to integrate schools

1956: Republicans propose School Choice (anti segregation)
- Democrats oppose it –
  Schools are segregated by income, social status, and IQ.

School choice policies are often criticized for being disproportionately accessible to those with higher income, social status, and education levels, effectively segregating opportunities by wealth and background. Donald Trump advocated for expanding school choice, emphasizing alternatives like charter schools, private schools, and homeschooling.

The New York Times (a liberal newspaper) points out that wealthy Democrats are against better housing and “school choice” because they want to keep their neighborhoods ‘safe’ – see NYT Video Link

1956: Democrat Theophilus Eugene “Bull” Connor, who defended segregation, forced the raid of the home of black Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and had 3 of his minister colleagues arrested for the false charge of vagrancy.

1957: Republican President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act on Sept. 9 1957 making it illegal to suppress another’s right to vote.
- Democrats rejected and began filibustering the Civil Rights Act to water down the rights of blacks.
- Democrats made it difficult for blacks to vote in many southern states and started requiring literacy tests.
1959: Republican and First Asian Senator, Hiram Fong, from Hawaii.
- He served from 1959 until 1977.
- Fong also was the first Asian American to receive votes for president at a major party convention.
1960: Republicans enacted the 1960 Civil Rights Acts, a federal law establishing inspection of local voter registration polls and introducing penalties for anyone obstructing voting privileges, enabling blacks and Hispanic Americans to vote without harassment.
1960: Republican Martin Luther King Sr., a registered Republican, initially endorsed Richard Nixon for president. He switched to John F. Kennedy after Kennedy helped get MLK Jr. released from a Georgia jail.

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