False premise. No one is hiding history except those who believe in the Lost Cause Myth. Removing statues that should never have been erected in the first place is not destroying history. Trying to claim that the Confederacy was honorable is rewriting history.

And yes, the Republican party was the party of Lincoln, and the Democratic party was the party of slavery and Jim Crow. Of course now it is the exact opposite. The shift started during the 1946 DNC Convention when the Dixicrats split off due to a pro civil rights plank. It continued during Civil rights area when Kennedy first submitted a civil rights bill to congress, and then LBJ signed the Civil Rights act, after which he stated, "I think we just delivered the South to the Republican party for a long time to come." Next came the southern strategy and now you have the GOP that is 89% white while the Dems are only 60%.