Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Redeemers were the Southern wing of the Democratic Party. They sought to regain their political power and enforce white supremacy. Their policy of Redemption was intended to oust the Radical Republicans, a coalition of freedmen, "carpetbaggers", and "scalawags".
Redeemers or Redemption, the establishment of white Democratic, one-party rule in the U.S. South following Reconstruction Redemption movement , a debt and tax evasion movement Right of redemption , a right to reclaim foreclosed property
Southern Democrats held powerful positions in Congress during the Wilson Administration, with one study noting “Though comprising only about half of the Democratic senators and slightly over two-fifths of the Democratic representatives, the southerners made up a large majority of the party’s senior members in the two houses.
This increase in the number of black officials forced the "frightened and desperate Democratic Party" to initiate the white supremacy campaign in which the Red Shirts would become integral partners. [18] Unlike the Ku Klux Klan, the Red Shirts collaborated only with the Democratic Party. They operated openly, as they wanted the North Carolina ...
The dominance of the Democratic Party in the South was cemented with the ascent of the "Redeemer" governments that displaced the Republican governments. After 1877, support for white supremacy generally caused whites to vote for Democrats and the region became known as the "Solid South". [19]
Virginia Representative John Randolph was the leader of the Quid faction of the Democratic-Republican ... The old Republican party is already ruined, past redemption ...
Former Michigan Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm praised the party's energy at its national convention in Chicago as Vice President Kamala Harris prepares to formally accept its presidential ...
Democratic candidates won by large margins in a majority of Southern states in every presidential election from 1876 to 1948, except for 1928, when the Democratic candidate was Al Smith, a Catholic New Yorker. Even in that election, the divided South provided Smith with nearly three-fourths of his electoral votes.