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It's such an odd argument. It's true that the democrat party is the party pre 20th century that supported slavery rights.
The deep south was a Democratic stronghold until around the 1950s when the party started supporting civil rights and social reform.
At this point the southern wing of the party broke off from the main party.
The Republican party was founded specifically by anti slavery activists in the 1850s and was rather neutral on civil rights issues post civil war until they saw the fracture in the Democrat party in the 1950s and used the opportunity to change their platform to oppose social reform in order to pick up those disenfranchised southern voters.
So saying the democrat party was the party of slavery during the civil war is one of those things that's technically true but has no bearing on the present.