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The Digital Research Library of Illinois History Journal™ : When and Why the Democratic and Republican Parties Switched Platforms. President Lincoln's Philosophies were Actually Democratic.
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Why Did the Democratic and Republican Parties Switch Platforms? | Sometime between the 1860s and 1936, the (Democratic) party of small government became the party of big government, and the (Republican) party
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