What party would you have been a member of 200 years ago?

[ButterflyBlood]

I have to say the Democratic-Republicans, while they were to big on states' rights and all that, the Federalists were warmongers and supported a huge federal government to a level that was almost totalitarian. And then there was the Alien and Sedition Acts. A lousy choice, but I see the Democratic-Republicans as a lesser of two evils.

[HEyHEY]

1. THose are almost Canadian sounding

[bleedingheart]

2. None - I am a woman so I wouldn't have had the right to vote..

[Kire]

3. I'd be a Democrat

[ButterflyBlood]

4. Didn't exist back then

and they consisted of Southern slave holders for most of their early existance.

[freetobegay]

5. Other

Being Gay, I would say the dead poets society.

[Big Kahuna]

7. heh :)

[starroute]

6. Thomas Jefferson was a Democratic-Republican

That's good enough for me.

I have had a mad crush on that man ever since I was about 15.

[psychopomp]

8. None

Slaves did not have political parties.
edit: I suppose I could have been a free Abolitionist.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

9. Neither. Both had glaring defects.

Though I would certainly have leaned towards the DR's. Slavery was already a millstone around the nation's neck and the DR's, in effect, supported through states rights. The Federalists weren't a helluva lot bettter and worse in many ways.

Oddly enough, most of the "founding fathers" decried and feared political parties. Including Jefferson and Adams.

[Walt Starr]

10. The party of Jefferson

and the party the current Democratic PArty is a direct descendent of.

Democratic-Republican all the way, baby!

[Padme Amidala]

11. My parents liked Adams because of the Boston Massacre defense

But they are strong liberals. So am I. Adams was opposed to the Alien and Sedition Acts. His party pushed for legislation and this destroyed him.