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What are the Democratic and Republican parties' symbols?
The Democratic party is symbolized with a donkey and the party is identified as the "blue" party, while the Republicans have the elephant as their symbol and are known as the "red" party.
The Republican elephant was created by cartoonist Thomas Nast and appeared in_Harper's Weekly_, Nov. 7, 1874. Before then, an 1860 issue of _Railsplitter_ and an 1872 _Harper's Weekly_ also had...
The Republican and Democratic parties exist due to the strikingly contrasting ethnic and cultural differences of each. Though both parties originally lacked ideological differences, they were clearly...