From white supremacy to Barack Obama: The history of the Democratic Party

The party completely flipped.

Correction: A previous version of this video incorrectly indicated that the republican candidate in 1912 was James K. Polk. It was William Taft. We regret the error.

The Democratic Party is the longest-existing political party in the US, and arguably the world. But in its over 180 year existence, it's completed a remarkable ideological and geographic transformation. Originally a staunch defender of Southern slavery, the party now wins the support of most nonwhite voters. Once an advocate of rural interests against coastal elites, the party now draws much of its strength from cities and coastal areas. This video tells the tale of the Democratic Party's origins, its various metamorphoses, and the sources of its strength — and weaknesses — today.

[Arian]

I can't believe how some people get angry at literal facts

[mintysoldaccount]

"the Republican party was unpopular among white southerners"

oh how the times have changed

[lukastheise]

"The republican party was bitterly unpopular among white southeners" is the strangest sentence from todays point of view xD

[PappyP]

Imagine telling Lincoln that the we had a black president and it was in the democratic party

[noahwiltsie]

Let's just pass over how Wilson continued to push anti-Black policies

[aumnia]

There is no good party just good people

[BosleyBeats]

What’s funny is in the black community we are very aware of this history. And when we were used for votes it was for hope of new opportunities and the tone flipped aligning to a new era of stereotypes and agendas. This is why it’s important to study history and listen to everyone’s voices and how they were affected

[PikachuPromo]

The Democratic Party never changed at all.

[boatygatling]

Half the time Vox is a liberal network, other half it just tries to educate us. This is the time when it tries to educate us about our history, why hate on this video?

[dpu]

Prager U and Vox should really have a debate on something...

[jeffb]

I remember some of this, when history was actually taught in school. Didn’t understand all of it, because politics was left out of it.
Scary they are slowly teaching less and less of this

[These-nutz]

Didn’t Joe do a eulogy for a klan member?

[firstnamelastname]

Woodrow Wilson: **exists**

Vox: I’m pretend I didn’t see that

[Calikid]

i always wondered how the parties ended up switching ideoligies and values so much

[robertocaingarcia]

The Republican party was founded by 150 black man in Houston Texas

[sunshinedoesit]

Thank you for keeping it real! Real American history 💯.. I will forward this because this was well put and I've been trying to tell many people this for a long time.❤

[sidbell]

I feel like they've already made this video before

[earlycuyler]

“I’ll have those (omitted) voting democrat for 100 years” LBJ

[nowhereman]

These two parties have ruined this country

[StevenSeagull]

I still don't know why they took me off the grocery store shelves.