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The Redeemers were a political coalition in the Southern United States during the Reconstruction Era that followed the American Civil War. Redeemers were the Southern wing of the Democratic Party . They sought to regain their political power and enforce white supremacy .
The Emerging Democratic Majority is a 2002 book by John Judis and Ruy Teixeira which argues that certain demographic and social changes in the United States at the turn of the 21st century were creating a political landscape that favored the Democratic Party. [1] [2] The book's central argument is that the Democratic Party would become dominant ...
Historian Edward L. Ayers argues the Redeemers were sharply divided, however, and fought for control of the Democratic Party: For the next few years the Democrats seemed in control of the South, but even then deep challenges were building beneath the surface. Behind their show of unity, the Democratic Redeemers suffered deep divisions.
By 1877, at the end of the Reconstruction era, Hampton was a leader of the Redeemers, White Southerners who successfully fought to restore white supremacy in the state. [1] His campaign for governor was marked by extensive violence by the Red Shirts , a white supremacist paramilitary group that disrupted elections and suppressed Black voters in ...
According to Historian Merrill D. Peterson, the book conveyed: the myth of the Democratic Party masterfully re-created, a fresh awareness of the elemental differences between the parties, and ideology with which they might make sense of the two often senseless conflicts of the present, and a feeling for the importance of dynamic leadership.
Historian Michael Kazin's 'What it Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party' brings needed context to the question of how to rebuild a coalition.
Thus the Democratic Party became the vehicle for the white supremacist Redeemers. [21] The Ku Klux Klan , as well as other insurgent paramilitary groups such as the White League and Red Shirts from 1874, acted as "the military arm of the Democratic party" to disrupt Republican organizing, and to engage in voter intimidation and voter suppresion ...
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.