With the defeat of the Democrats and the South, to the victors went the spoils. The Republican party was founded a little more than a decade earlier, and lacked for issues other than dividing the spoils of victory, i.e. government jobs once the slave were free. Republicans immediately striped [[white]] [[male]]s who engaged in rebellion against the [[United States]] of the [[vote]], and gave it to Blacks. These white males deprived of the vote were universally Democrats.
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Reconstruction earned Republicans the undying [[hatred]] of Democrats, which has been passed down generation to generation until the modern day. This hatred is so intense, the very mention of the word "Republican" is a trigger word whose mere utterance is enough to send some fourth and fifth generation Democrats into paroxysms and fits of rage.