All presidents bar one are related.
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Origins of the Democrat party:
From 1828 to 1848, banking and tariffs were the central domestic policy issues. Democrats strongly favored, and Whigs opposed, expansion to new farm lands, as typified by their expulsion of eastern American Indians and acquisition of vast amounts of new land in the West after 1846. The party favored the War with Mexico and opposed anti-immigrant nativism. Both Democrats and Whigs were divided on the issue of slavery. In the 1830s, the Locofocos in New York City were radically democratic, anti-monopoly, and were proponents of hard money and free trade.[10][11] Their chief spokesman was William Leggett. At this time labor unions were few; some were loosely affiliated with the party.[
Democratic Party - once known as the "white man party".
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_...ratic.html
Republican party use to be friendly towards Blacks.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_...ratic.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...-king.html
Origins of the Democrat party:
From 1828 to 1848, banking and tariffs were the central domestic policy issues. Democrats strongly favored, and Whigs opposed, expansion to new farm lands, as typified by their expulsion of eastern American Indians and acquisition of vast amounts of new land in the West after 1846. The party favored the War with Mexico and opposed anti-immigrant nativism. Both Democrats and Whigs were divided on the issue of slavery. In the 1830s, the Locofocos in New York City were radically democratic, anti-monopoly, and were proponents of hard money and free trade.[10][11] Their chief spokesman was William Leggett. At this time labor unions were few; some were loosely affiliated with the party.[
Democratic Party - once known as the "white man party".
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_...ratic.html
Republican party use to be friendly towards Blacks.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_...ratic.html