CarveHerName1d ago

#OnThisDay, 2 Apr 1917, Jeanette Rankin is sworn in, becoming the first woman to sit in the US Congress.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

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@CarveHerName republican
Apr 2 at 3:46pmTusky
Show threadProcess "Tedious" Parsnip1d ago

@MBEverding I think you might be outside the US, so I wanted to add some context: while the US political establishment has never truly been liberal, the Republican party used to be more liberal than the Democrats. Abraham Lincoln was a Republican. The parties began to switch roles at the end of our Civil War and completed their switch during the Great Depression, although Republicans started accelerating right during the Civil Rights Era.

Rough summary:

https://www.studentsofhistory.com/ideologies-flip-Democratic-Republican-parties

@CarveHerName

The Great Switch: How Republicans and Democrats Flipped Ideologies

An overview of the realignment of the Republican Party and Democratic Party and how they flipped ideologies of liberal and conservative over the course of US History.

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@ProcessParsnip @CarveHerName ah thanks for the article it clarified when they switched