[Guest]

What I'm saying is that the two parties have switched sides so to speak.
I doubt most Americans are aware of it,but from the time the GOP was founded in 1854 until after the first World War,they were the progressive party,or at least more progressive than the Democrats of the same era.
The Republican base was the Democratic states of today,and the
Democrats base was todays Republican territory.Look at the election maps at www.uselectionatlas.org , particularly of the Civil War era and from 1896-1916.You'll see its all reversed.From the 1920s to the 1960s there was a gradual shift in the cultural base of both parties.The parties as we know them today are essentially post-1964 creations.Up to the 1920s the Democrats were the party of Southern segregation,Christian fundamentalism(three-time presidential nominee W J Bryan was a Fundamentalist and Prohibitionist) and most rural voters.The Republicans were supported by urban voters,Jews,most blacks and women who could vote at that time,and were the liberal and secular reformers of their day.

[Cool Hand Linc]

Thats pretty interesting stuff.