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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 .
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ]
The Democratic Party in the state was heavily divided over free silver and the role of corporations in the middle 1890s, and lost the governorship for the first time in forty years in 1895. [98] In contrast to the former Confederate States, Kentucky was part of the Upper South and bordered the industrial Midwest across the Ohio River , and had ...
They were opposed by "Redeemers," who sought to restore white supremacy and reestablish the Democratic Party's control of Southern governments and society. Violent groups, including the Ku Klux Klan , the White League , and the Red Shirts , engaged in paramilitary insurgency and terrorism to disrupt the efforts of the Reconstruction governments ...