WHAT DOES THE GOP MEAN TO YOU AS AN AMERICAN INDIVIDUAL? 1. GOP is an acronym for Gallant Old Party - the traditional name for the Republican Party of the United States. 2.GOP stands for Grand Old Party, the nickname of the Republican party. According to the GOP website. 3.The Republican Party was formed in 1854, when a man named Alvan E. Bovay brought together antislavery leaders. ... What do Republicans stand for today? 4.The first Republican president was Abraham Lincoln. After the Civil War, the upstart Republicans were perceived as the party that won the war. The Republicans who were firmly fixed into the Federal Government were ironically dubbed the Gallant Old Party, which soon became known as the Grand Old Party, which was then shortened to the GOP. 5.The United States Republican Party is the second oldest existing political party in the U.S. after its great rival, the Democratic Party. It emerged in 1854 to combat the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which threatened to extend slavery into the territories, and to promote more vigorous modernization of the economy. The Party had almost no presence in the South, but by 1858 in the North it had enlisted former Whigs(the Whigs supported the supremacy of Congress over the Presidency and favored a program of modernization and economic protectionism.) and former Free Soil Democrats (The Free Soil Party was a short-lived political party in the United States active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections, and in some state elections. Founded in Buffalo, New York, it was a third party and a single-issue party that largely appealed to and drew its greatest strength from New York State. The party leadership consisted of former anti-slavery members of the Whig Party and the Democratic Party. Its main purpose was opposing the expansion of slavery into the western territories, arguing that free men on free soil comprised a morally and economically superior system to slavery. They opposed slavery in the new territories (agreeing with the Wilmot proviso) and sometimes worked to remove existing laws that discriminated against freed African Americans in states such as Ohio. The party membership was largely absorbed by the Republican Party in 1854.) to form majorities in nearly every Northern state. With its election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, and its success in guiding the Union to victory and abolishing slavery, it came to dominate the national political scene until 1932. The Republican Party was based on northern white Protestants, businessmen, small business owners, professionals, factory workers, farmers, and African-Americans. It was pro-business, supporting banks, the gold standard, railroads, and tariffs(A tariff is a tax or duty imposed by one nation on the imported goods or services of another nation). 6.From The Republican Party - GOP History on the Republican National Committee (RNC) website: The symbol of the Republican Party is the elephant. During the mid term elections way back in 1874, Democrats tried to scare voters into thinking President Grant would seek to run for an unprecedented third term. Thomas Nast, a cartoonist for Harper’s Weekly, depicted a Democratic jackass trying to scare a Republican elephant - and both symbols stuck. For a long time Republicans have been known as the G.O.P. And party faithfuls thought it meant the Grand Old Party. But apparently the original meaning (in 1875) was gallant old party. And when automobiles were invented it also came to mean, get out and push. That’s still a pretty good slogan for Republicans who depend every campaign year on the hard work of hundreds of thousands of volunteers to get out and vote and push people to support the causes of the Republican Party. 7.The GOP expanded its base throughout the South after 1968 (excepting 1976), largely due to its strength among socially conservative white Evangelical Protestants and traditionalist Roman Catholics. As white Democrats in the South lost dominance of the Democratic Party once federal courts declared the Democratic White Primary elections unconstitutional, the region began more taking on the two-party apparatus which characterized most of the nation. The Republican Partys central leader by 1980 was Ronald Reagan, whose conservative policies called for reduced government spending and regulation, lower taxes, and a strong anti-Soviet foreign policy. 8.What the GOP means to Me, and for my Eyes wide open is That Instead of One CEO for One Nation, there are several hundreds, and thousands of people Representing The Better and purest interests in Our Common Direction, and how we get there, and Our Common Goals and how we get to those; Putting Strength Back Into the words WE CAN DO THIS, not only for the THE BUSINESS OWNERS, and Not Only for THE FACTORY WORKERS, and Not Only for THE FARMERS, and Not Only for THE BANKS, But For The Good Of the People By The People and For the People The GOP(Good Of the People). Eric Eugene Perfecto Sinclair Its Time We Unite Together Republicans of the United States of America
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