Liberal Republican Argumentative Analysis

After Reconstruction the states that resided in the north were primarily Liberal Republican. This was due from Lincoln’s association with the Republican Party, and the role he had on equal treatment for blacks during the Civil War (Boles pg. 570). Also, the term liberal is associated with the progressive party, which means looking forward. In contrast, the south was primarily Conservative Democratic, with the term conservative associated with being stuck in old ways of doing things. This implies that they did not agree upon the equal opportunities among blacks and whites, because they viewed blacks more as servants. This way of thinking stemmed from before the Civil War, when slavery was still in common practice. So, one of the main divisions between the two parties was the issue on race. Today the south is largely associated with the Conservative Republican platforms, and the north being associated with the Liberal Democratic platforms. The purpose of this paper is to explain how the South transitioned from this solidly Democratic region to one that is today largely recognized as solidly Republican, through the platforms of key politicians had on
Truman who was a part of the mainstream Democratic, was credited desegregation of the armed forces in 1948. (Cobb 8). This term created some upheaval in the views of the Southern Democrats, so they formed their own party, which is referred to as the Dixie-Crats. The main people who was associated with this party were Thurman, Goldwater, and Wallace. These people were highly against the role of “big government”, which could control things such as desegregation not only in the armed forces, but in other situations as well. The Dixie-Crats; however, were never successful in winning the majority vote because they only appealed to the racial extremists (Boles