Todays Democrats and the "party of Lincoln" have much in common -- it's called liberalism.  If Lincoln were alive today, he would be a Democrat, not a Republican.  Lincoln's idealology was more liberal than conservative.  Anyone that cares, can look up the history of Democrats, Dixiecrats, Solid South, and how southern conservatives changed the parties.

That you subscribe racism and bigotry to the Democratic party is disingenuous.  This POTUS is breaking the system, not fixing it.  Democrats do their best to put bandaids on our wounds to help us heal.  Republicans come along and them rip off.

We've been over Byrd many times.  He left the Klan in 1952 and never looked back.  Byrd apologized, and said "I can't erase what happened."  He was one of those conservative Dixiecrats that managed to get past the conservative stranglehold of his West Virginia roots -- and he landed smack dab in the center.  He became a moderate constitutional conservative.