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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (36322)	4/30/1999 4:25:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

The Democrats were pro-slavery before the war .... And so were the whigs and so were most people except of a handful of abolitionists. The Republicans didn't have a majority in 1860. But all of these guys, are dead! And few turned their faces. Today many of the active Democrats are African-Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans and other ethnics who feel they are excluded from the "ruling classes" who dominate the Republican Party. You write as if you think there's a small continuous group of people who set a Democratic agenda. You are very wrong, of course. Every state Democratic Party is a party of those who show up at the conventions or win election in primaries. Anyone can attend a precinct meeting and get elected to state convention that runs things and chooses agendas. Anyone can run for convention delegates if the state has primaries. The same goes for most state Republican parties. The parties are democratic institutions controlled by those who are active. The idea that "the govornment" is in charge of parties is ridiculous.