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**soineeLom** · 02-21-2011, 05:13 AM

My impression, from Pat Buchanan's, "The Great Betrayal," was that, America's "Golden Age" was the late 19th Century and it was dominated by Republicans, who favored business and business favored, at that time, Protectionism, Closed Borders (birth rates were high then; a model Baptist preacher would have 12 kids, not 2.0) and Anti-Unionism. Democrats were the opposite: Pro-Union, Open Borders and Free Trade. Democrats gained the upper hand around 1900.

02-21-2011, 05:13 AM	#24
soineeLom Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 328 Senior Member	My impression, from Pat Buchanan's, "The Great Betrayal," was that, America's "Golden Age" was the late 19th Century and it was dominated by Republicans, who favored business and business favored, at that time, Protectionism, Closed Borders (birth rates were high then; a model Baptist preacher would have 12 kids, not 2.0) and Anti-Unionism. Democrats were the opposite: Pro-Union, Open Borders and Free Trade. Democrats gained the upper hand around 1900.
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