The KKK was part of the Democratic party. They aren't any more.

The kkk is not part of the democratic party anymore. So this is not the flag of the democratic party. The democratic party doesn't support slavery anymore, they are strongly against racism now.

Which states voted for Lincoln and which ones tried to secede from the Union?

Now, how did each of those states vote in 2008?

That is not the flag of the Democratic Party. It is but one of the several flags the Confederacy used during the American Civil War.

It was also later used as a State Flag for the state of South Carolina.

During the Civil War, the respective ideologies of the two ruling political parties, i.e. the Republicans and the Dems, were almost totally reversed from what we see today.

Back then, it was the Republicans (Lincoln's Party) who were the liberals! They were the ones who wanted to free the slaves. (well, some of them, anyway). And conversely it was the Dems who by and large supported slavery. IN fact the southern Slave Holders, the rich plantation owners who basically started the Civil War, nicknamed Lincoln and his Abolitionists as "Black Republicans."

Today of course its all turned around. The Dems are perceived as the liberals, and the ones who are usually more i favor of equality and civil liberty, of political correctness, and equality for minorities. (this point would be argues by the GOP of course.)

The flag in the pic was NEVER a flag of either Party. And today it has no part whatsoever in the ideology of the Democratic Party.

The Democratic Party lost the South as voters and constituents during LBJ's "Great Society" Platform the the 1960s when he introduced the Civil Rights Bill of 1964. And also began integrating the public schools.

OK! There ya go, son. A free history lesson that I trust will bring you up to speed and this issue and show you that this debate is preposterous and without merit.

Hope this helps!

SS