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    Following the end of the Civil War, the Union came out the victor and the Confederacy the loser. Because the Confederacy lost the war, though, the Union was presented with the problem of reincorporating the southern states back into the Union, a process known to historians as Reconstruction. With the goal in mind of creating a Republican presence in the south based on a Free Labor ideology, the Republican Party was only moderately successful, and their eventual failure resulted in a Democratic…

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    Democratic state, and it looks blue. The U.S senators and congressional representatives are both Democrats. There is also a greater number in Democrats in state legislative houses and offices. Barack Obama won 61% of election vote in 2008. He went agains Republican Mitt Romney, 50-40% in November 2011. Differentiating a liberal and a conservative, it appears that the most Californian falls towards conservative. California falls under citizens wanting to pay more taxes for government benefits…

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    Introduction It is an honor to present the next Governor of Texas, Ms. Jane “Bitzi’ Johnson Miller. Ms. Miller is a loyal Texas conservative that hails from West Texas where she was born and raised on a ranch. She comes from a proud line of Texans who have served their community. Her grandfather was former Texas Governor, Joe “Big Daddy” Johnson from 1954 through 1958. Ms. Miller attended the University of Texas at Austin where she received a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering and a…

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    Danforth Ellis tended to be in the middle of liberal and conservative but slightly to the liberal side. He rated 40 on the ABA 0-100 liberal to conservative scale as a Senator. Ellis supports gun control, free trade, gay marriage and civil union, but opposes to make partial birth abortion illegal. He had a similar point of view as the government. Compare to Ellis, Judge Stephanie Jackson is also a Democrat but she is too liberal (top 10 liberal who are running the America By Fox…

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    benefit them.Therefore, unlike Republicans, Democrats back their opinions on this topic by using legal and constitutional evidence rather than religious beliefs. One of the most vital parts of the American-abortion discussion revolves around Planned Parenthood…

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    Baptist homes and is still in the process. I come from a small town in Texas where if you were not a conservative, you were basically shunned. Since moving down south to College Station for school, I have learned that it is okay to have a different political stand than mine. All of my parents are conservatives and so am I, but we do not always see eye to eye on things. I am a very open-minded conservative that recognizes the liberal beliefs. Which…

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    1992 election was the battle among the three candidates, George H.W Bush from Republican, Bill Clinton from Democrat, and the independent candidate Ross Perot. George H.W Bush was oil business man who joined politics later in his life. However, in 1967, he soon get elected twice to the House of Representative. The World War II veteran became rising power in the…

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    figures often use metaphors describing the nation as a family. He began to see examples everywhere and wondered if it correlated to whether one was Democrat or Republican and…

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    first understand their purpose for forming that party, fundamental beliefs, and positions. According to “Differences between Democrats and Republicans”, the Democratic Party started a very long time ago, when Thomas Jefferson was alive. These people were known as the Jefferson’s Republicans who greatly disagreed with the “Federalist Party and their nationalist views.” The Democrats selected a donkey for their symbol “due to Andrew Jackson who was publically named “jackass” because of his popular…

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    The “Reedemers” can be described as the group of people from the south, who belonged to the white race and were democrats who were led by rich group of people like either landowners, or businessmen and professionals, who constituted the pro-business faction and conservatives in the Democratic Party. During this time the republicans dominated the south and hence these redeemers carried on their policy of redemption whereby they were seeking to drive out the radical republican group from their…

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