Thank you for your post. It illustrates that many have been misled over the years. I posted an extract to your piece with appropriate link backs and will cross post the extracts and link backs to you on a couple other national sites tonight.

My post is at: http://arkansasgopwing.blogspot....ican- party.html
Dr. Bill Smith, ARRA Editor | Homepage | 07.13.08 - 9:10 pm | #

Thanks for reading my post, Dr. Smith, and for linking to it. More people should be aware of the true history of the GOP.
Mike LaRoche | Homepage | 07.14.08 - 11:19 am | #

There's a newish book at our library called the Great Betrayal, about the Gilded Age, and the author strains mightily to make parallels with today. Whatever. It's still an interesting review of the era if you can get past the author's bias. I got about 2/3 of the way before returning it to the library.
cassandra | Homepage | 07.14.08 - 8:04 pm | #