"The parties flipped" is a misleading shorthand: the Democrats gradually stopped pandering to a group that was leaving the party, & started pandering to a group that was entering, while the GOP in both cases was playing catch-up. Dems didn't change tactics, just targets.
Thats a long winded way of saying: Republicans follow leaders—leaders which are independent but not seperate of the geographical/social concerns of its constituents. Lincoln lead the GOP in searching for its “Better Angels” & the “Right to rise”—which Lincoln saw as hand in hand
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Lincoln saw it as Edmund Burke did: “Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing on others, he has a right to do for himself—all men have equal rights; but not to equal things." This right to rise was dependent on USA realizing how our better angels could help all
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