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Originally posted by seretogis
You're right, slavery started as a liberal platform. Freeing the slaves was done by conservatives. Three cheers for the liberal platform..? 
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Eh, you know what I meant, and you know I'm RIGHT.
That's a very short list of liberal victories, taken off the top of my head. And yes some of them were implemented by Republican presidents and Republican legislators. But not all republicans are and have been conservative. Especially during the 60's there was a great deal of liberal to moderate republicans. It was the liberal ones who got civil rights passed. And the congress, up until '93 was democrat-liberal controlled for about 50 straight years.
That helped.