2022.04.13
So Republicans have a claim to having had been the abolitionist Party of Lincoln, and modern partisans like to may hay with that- utterly sidestepping the reversal that happened after the Civil Rights Act, the Solid South changing from a Democratic stronghold to the Republican base.
But in this book, before the pivot, it is interesting to see that it's the (at the time, more Northerner) Republicans who tend towards expansionism and imperialism, and the Democrats who fight that, even before the pivot I mention. Now to be fair, that anti-Imperialism might also be tinged with a kind of "America First" isolationism that I might not like either, but it certainly puts the lie to a simplified "North/South swap following the Civil Rights Act" model
"Coward" should really mean "to move in the direction of a cow"