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However, continuing resistance to Reconstruction by Southern whites and its high cost contributed to its losing support in the North during the Grant administration. The 1876 presidential election was marked by widespread Black voter suppression in the South, and the result was close and contested.
The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction. Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0-8071-2798-1. DeSantis, Vincent P. Republicans Face the Southern Question: The New Departure Years, 1877–1897 (1998) Donald, David H. (1944). "The Scalawag in Mississippi Reconstruction". The Journal of Southern History. 10 (4): 447 ...
Liberal Northern Democrats accused Nixon of pandering to Southern whites, especially with regard to his "states' rights" and "law and order" positions, which were widely understood by black leaders to symbolize Southern resistance to civil rights. [91] This tactic was described in 2007 by David Greenberg in Slate as "dog-whistle politics". [92]
The NAACP's steady progress with individual cases was thwarted by southern Democrats' continuing resistance and passage of new statutory barriers to blacks' exercising the franchise. Through the 1950s and 1960s, private citizens enlarged the effort by becoming activists throughout the South, led by many black churches and their leaders, and ...
Southern Democrats are members of the U.S. Democratic Party who reside in the Southern United States. [1] ... After the Reconstruction Era ended in the late 1870s, ...
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 southern state legislatures and most local, state and federal officeholders in the South were ...
Which percentage and which year depends on the goals of the project—to look at history, or at current patterns, or to project future trends. In 1980, Southern counties with at least 25% African American populations comprised 29% of the Southern United States' population, falling to 23% in 2005. The white population in the same counties fell ...
The Southern United States ... In 1832, in resistance to federal legislation increasing tariffs, ... During Reconstruction, these were mostly legally nullified by ...