of what the embrace today. Modern Republicans love to claim Lincoln as their own, however, according to modern day standards of the parties, he was really a Democrat.

The South switched from being Democrats to being Republicans and northern states abandoned the Republicanparty to become Democrats, slowly over a period of time.

IOW, Johnson betrayed the party of Lincoln and turned it into a party no longer concerned about freedom and civil rights for anyone who wasn't white, causing the switcheroo of labels over the decades to follow.