| | Republican Party (United States) - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | The party was organized in Ripon, Wisconsin on February 28, 1854, as a party opposed to the westward expansion of slavery. |
| | In the early 20th century, the traditional symbol of the Republican party in Midwestern states such as Indiana and Ohio was the eagle, as opposed to the Democratic rooster. |
| | The post-war emergence of the United States as one of two superpowers and rapid social change caused the Republican Party to divide into a conservative faction (dominant in the West and Southeast) and a liberal faction (dominant in New England) – combined with a residual base of inherited progressive Midwestern Republicanism active throughout the century. |
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