 where nary has heard a discouraging word, like in academia and in the news media and in publishing, just don't mention that Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, was the Democrat in the Civil War. For Democrats listening along, you've got to tell the whole story. And that Abraham Lincoln was the very first Republican president in the United States, and he signed the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves, and on Juneteenth,