Wrong. The Democratic-Republican party did not split off to become the Republican party. The majority split off to create the modern Democrat party and the minority party split off to create the Whig party... which later died. None of that crowd went on to become the Republican party. Perhaps you should read some remedial history? While it's true I got the wrong Roosevelt, at least I'm able to admit when I'm wrong. And how exactly is my view distorted about Lincoln? He was openly hostile to the southern states. He used force and the ruse of Unionism to get the southern states to sign the Amendment. "Sign it or die" was the message heard loud and clear. The North were constantly using aggression, taxing the south so that the money could be appropriated to the North for building cities while leaving the South in a state of agrarianism. And then came the 3/5th compromise which was more horseshit created by the North to rob the South of representation. And Lincoln was an aristocratic traitor to his own people. A "remedial" reading of history would have told you this if you weren't believing the "he cared about the nigger" revisionist story.