Trace the history of the Republican Party from the beginnings
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I would say Southern states nowadays are generally carried by the Republican party. However, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries the South tended to vote for the Democrats, who were ideologically different than today's Democratic party.
They began as a small faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, a Marxist revolutionary party.
Lenin's group was the Bolshevik Party. After the October Revolution when it was the sole power in the country and all other political parties were being eliminated, it changed its name to the Communist Party in March 1918.
The donkey. When a republican called Andrew Jackson (Old Hickory) a name for a donkey that would probably get reported on this site, he liked the thought of such a stubborn, unmoving animal so much that he made it the symbol of the democratic party.
These two groups were two large political groups during the French revolution.Jacobins were people who supported the revolution and wanted a centralized Republic. They were the ones to intituted the reign of terror.Girondins were members of the moderate republican party that was in power during the French Revolution; they were a group of individuals who held certain opinions and principles in common rather than an organized political party. They wanted a democratic revolution within and of patriotic defiance to the European powers without.Jacobins were the ones who wanted radical change and the Girondins were the ones who wanted conservative change.