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The United States presidential election of 1860 formalized the split in the Democratic Party and brought about the American Civil War. [2] After the Reconstruction Era ended in the late 1870s, so-called redeemers were Southern Democrats who controlled all the southern states and disenfranchised African-Americans.
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The West Wing depicts the workings of a fictional Democratic presidential administration and many of its major characters are explicitly identified as Democrats. Will Bailey - White House staff member and later Congressman; Abbey Bartlet - First Lady of the United States; Josiah Bartlet - the incumbent Democratic President of the United States
The Solid South was the electoral voting bloc for the Democratic Party in the Southern United States between the end of the Reconstruction era in 1877 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. [1] [2] During this period, the Democratic Party controlled
The States' Rights Democratic Party (whose members are often called the Dixiecrats), also colloquially referred to as the Dixiecrat Party, was a short-lived segregationist, States' Rights, and old southern democratic political party in the United States, active primarily in the South.
Historical factions of the Democratic Party include the founding Jacksonians, the Copperheads and War Democrats during the American Civil War, the Redeemers, Bourbon Democrats, and Silverites in the late-19th century, and the Southern Democrats and New Deal Democrats in the 20th century.
The Southern Democrats mostly opposed the Northern and Western politicians regardless of party affiliation—and their Presidents (Kennedy and Johnson)—on civil rights issues. At the same time, passage of the Civil Rights Act caused many black voters to join the Democratic Party, which moved the party and its nominees in a progressive ...
The Southern Caucus was a Congressional caucus of Southern Democrats in the United States Senate chaired by Richard Russell, [1] which was an effective opposition to civil rights legislation and formed a vital part of the later conservative coalition that dominated the Senate into the 1960s.