Although I was born into a typical Democrat New York City family, I registered as a Republican as soon as I was old enough to vote.

Why? Just to be different but at heart, I was as enamored of John F. Kennedy as the nuns at my high school. My first vote was for Democrat Hubert Humphrey, and I worked for Robert F. Kennedy’s senatorial campaign. But I was never really a Republican at heart until Ronald Reagan ran for president in 1976.

Before that epiphany, I was as clueless as the rest of America, and when a German coworker asked me the difference between the two major parties, I told her, “the Democrats are for the poor and the Republicans are for the rich.”

Boy, was I wrong. Just a little research into the past, proves that the GOP is the party of civil rights and the Democrats, founders of the KKK, Jim Crow and segregation policies. Amazingly, this fact has been totally reversed, cleverly, since the 1960s.

It would help if low-information voters do a little research into the origin of the Republican Party that managed to give us one of the best civil rights presidents, Abraham Lincoln. What many Millennial voters may not know is that the first Republicans were considered radicals of the time. They were abolitionists, an enemy of slavery. While in office, they attempted to enact legislation that would benefit former slaves. Unfortunately, their opponents were racist Democrats who........

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