Wednesday, July 20, 2016

How Republicans went from the party of Lincoln to the party of Trump, in 13 maps

Andrew Prokop writes today that the:

Republican Party has nominated Donald J. Trump for president of the United States. This is a remarkable turn of events, and it only gets more remarkable when you think back to how the party began its existence: fighting against the expansion of slavery. 
But over the past century and a half, the party of Abraham Lincoln has changed dramatically. It went from a party that was racially progressive for its times, to one that gets little support from nonwhite voters.

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