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TravisV's avatar

Hmm, I'm not certain that the Democratic Party phase where it was highly sympathetic with the Confederate cause necessarily means that it was "libertarian"........

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Eharding's avatar

What anti-libertarian things did they support (other than immigration restrictions on Chinese during the third party system)?

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TravisV's avatar

Uh, slavery for one.

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Eharding's avatar

That's an exception to the general rule.

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