What do the facts that most of the Southern States voted Republican again AND...

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...Civil War seem to represent? I'd like your opinions of history past and present.

I'm not a paid historian, but from my limited research there seems to be recurrent patterns and plans.

Is it possible that the Republicans ( John Wilkes Booth and co-conspirators ) killed Abraham Lincoln solely because he wanted Slavery abolished forever. Republicans killed a Republican. Isn't it a bit scary that the Emancipation Proclamation took so long (over one hundred years before Blacks had all rights of citizenship) to be actually recognized into law. I find it a bit curious that the Public's Voting record isn't kept for very long. Shouldn't it be a part of America's history?
To Timberja: Lincoln didn't separate the South. Some Southern States decided to secede from the Union of States because Lincoln believed all men we created equal and by so believing he emancipated the slaves. The South co-conspired to assassinate him for believing so.

To Mixter: The Southern Democrat to whom you obviously refer is not a reference to the South as you so adamantly infer. History books, past and present give inconsistent accounts of what occurred when and who has been attributed with recorded accounts. The South has pretty much been a Republican Majority for many many years. By all accounts, the South has voted predominately Republican.
 
I totally agree with you that it should be a part that is taught in History Class. I think that Republicans killed him because he was kind of the cause of the Civil War in the sense of "Republic" as Republican's name shows. They didn't like the fact that the original Union was divided and they wanted to end the person that caused the division of that.
 
Dude, read a Freaking history book. Lincoln was a Republican, and Republicans were for the Union. Democrats were for slavery and the South. It is only now that the South is voting Republican, and that has nothing to do with slavery, and everything to do with Personal Freedom and Responsibility.
 
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