Forum, July 2: Thank Republicans for saving the union, freeing the enslaved Published: 7/1/2021 10:00:27 PM Modified: 7/1/2021 10:00:24 PM Thank Republicans for saving the union, freeing the enslaved Our beloved country might still have slavery if the Democrats in the South had won the Civil War. And what would Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein, Maxine Waters, Chuck Schumer, Jerrold Nadler, Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy be doing now? Republican “white privilege” saved the Union, freed our Black brethren and, since the Civil War (which was anything but civil), the Democrats have tried to hold their former slaves back. Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan because they wanted to get rid of Blacks, Jews and Catholics.