{"id":4222,"date":"2016-07-27T23:54:08","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T06:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=4222"},"modified":"2016-07-28T10:32:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T17:32:57","slug":"motion-graphics-how-the-republican-party-went-from-lincoln-to-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/27\/motion-graphics-how-the-republican-party-went-from-lincoln-to-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Motion graphics: &#8220;How the Republican Party went from Lincoln to Trump&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How <em>did<\/em>\u00a0the main US political parties swap ends of the political spectrum\u2014with Republicans going from antagonizing white Southerners to the point of secession, to becoming the dominant party in (and voice of) that region?<\/p>\n<p>I found this explainer video from Vox lucid, efficient, and clear\u2014not ax-grindy, as otherwise I wouldn\u2019t share it here. You might enjoy watching it &amp; may learn a few things along the way.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s8VOM8ET1WU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> \u2028<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/INewImage-13.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"599\" height=\"262\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: If you watch this\u2014as I think you&#8217;d find worthwhile\u2014and find parts of it inaccurate or misleading, please speak up and shed some light instead of turning away or changing the subject. I&#8217;m genuinely interested in increasing understanding (my own &#038; others&#8217;). TIA.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s8VOM8ET1WU\">YouTube<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/16\/07\/how-the-republican-party-went-from-lincoln-to-trump\">Via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did\u00a0the main US political parties swap ends of the political spectrum\u2014with Republicans going from antagonizing white Southerners to the point of secession, to becoming the dominant party in (and voice of) that region? I found this explainer video from Vox lucid, efficient, and clear\u2014not ax-grindy, as otherwise I wouldn\u2019t share it here. You might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4222"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4225,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222\/revisions\/4225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}