... of where Republicans and Democrats come from (good, notecard-size piece for parents who have been agonizing about that "little talk.")
I always thought it was interesting that, at least, post-Reconstruction and pre-Bush 43, Republicans seemed to be more "democratic" in principle (for the enfranchised) and Democrats seemed more "republican," and I assumed this ironic switcharoo gradually took place sometime between FDR and the Civil Rights movement, but it seems, although there was rhyme and reason to the original coinage, history unraveled in such a way that the two terms became pretty much random and interchangeable.
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