An interesting similarity between TR and FDR

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Teddy was a old "Whig" style GOPer, like: Taft, McKinley, Harding, Coolidge, Lincoln, Grant and Hoover. Who believed in moderation and not polarization.  The heart of the Whig party was to get rid of slavery and lynching that the Dixiecrats like Wilson and Bryan-Jennings had no interest in doing.

FDR secularized the Civil Rights wing of the Democratic Party.

So, there is the similarity: compassionate conservative, found in the NE GOP part is the secular part of the Civil Rights wing of the GOP party. Like Snowe, Collins and Arlen Specter