"Party of Lincoln?"

Strange how many Democrats truly admire Abraham Lincoln and how many in the modern Republican Party, "the party of Lincoln," seem indifferent, if not not openly hostile, to the first Republican president, or hostile to what he stood for. Maybe "some" Republicans would feel more comfortable being labeled, "the party of Jefferson Davis?"

WORD HISTORY:
Yore-This word, closely related to "year," goes back to variant Indo European bases "yer" (long "e") and "yor" (long "o"), which meant "year," but also "season of the year." The Old Germanic offshoot was "jaeram," meaning "year." This gave Old English (Anglo-Saxon) "gear" ("year"), which had the genitive plural form "geara," which meant, "of years" (no "of" needed with the English grammar in those times), then also to mean, "of years long past." The word then came to be spelled "yore," with the very similar meaning, "a period of time long ago."