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Many American Conservatives today see Abraham Lincoln as part of their legacy and blame the Democrats for the Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow, however progressives conversely claim this is a fallacy and state that back then the Republican Party was the progressive part and the Democratic Party was the conservative party. Which claim do you believe is closer to the truth, as far as i can see both parties were pretty conservative by today's standards with the Republicans being the party of big business and the Democrats being the party of the southern planter class. It is probably a mistake projecting today's politics to the past but I would like to hear any thoughts.