If people knew their history, they would see the South was Democrat run before the Civil War
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And they would know the Confederate army was made up of Democrats.
Jefferson Davis - Democrat - President of Confederacy [
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Robert E Lee - Democrat (Banned General Lee from Dukes Of Hazard)
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Stonewall Jackson - Democrat
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The Civil War ended April 9, 1865 KKK formed December 24, 1865 by six Confederate veterans [
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They burned crosses also and that was to scare the extremely religious southern blacks as well.
Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Confederate President Jefferson Davis are all depicted on Stone Mountain in Georgia, which the Democrats also want to erase after they took down all the Confederate Democrat statues.
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(The Ku Klux Klan had been defunct for nearly a half-century. The second Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1915 by William Joseph Simmons at Stone Mountain in Georgia
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South still Democrat then [
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Following the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan emerges to suppress and victimize newly freed slaves.
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Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest was the KKK's first grand wizard and a Democrat
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Nathan Bedford Forrest amassed a fortune as a planter, real estate investor, and slave trader.
He was a delegate from Tennessee to the New York Democratic national convention of July 4, 1868
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The Butcher Forest (FORREST)
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The anti-slavery Whig party ended and became the Republican party in 1854
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The South was Democrat, which the south could not vote in 1864 due to the Civil War.
In the 1868 election as well as the 1972 election the South turned a little Republican from all the Yankees who were there after the war ended in 1865.
Then in 1876, they started to become Democrat again. Keep in mind, the KKK was formed in 1865. All the while, it was growing at a rapid pace, until the south became solid Democrat during the heights of the KKK
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Jim Crow laws, meant to suppress and segregate blacks started at the end of "Reconstruction" in 1877.
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Those laws were enforced until 1965.
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(Jim Crow was a fictional character, BTW)
Rutherford B. Hayes, Republican, took office in 1877 in the name of reuniting the country. He abandoned Reconstruction while pardoning Confederate leaders and pulling the U.S. Army out of the Southern states—which promptly passed a series of anti-black laws, like polling taxes that became known as “Jim Crow” laws. In the 1890s, Southern states, under Democrat control once again, passed new constitutions that made it even more difficult for black men to vote.
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Abraham Lincoln - Union Army
National Union Party / Republican Party
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Ulysses Grant - Union Army - Republican
At the time of Ulysses S. Grant's election to the presidency, white supremacists were conducting a reign of terror throughout the South. In outright defiance of the Republican-led federal government, Southern Democrats formed organizations that violently intimidated blacks and Republicans who tried to win political power.
The most prominent of these, the Ku Klux Klan, was formed in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865. Originally founded as a social club for former Confederate soldiers, the Klan evolved into a terrorist organization. It would be responsible for thousands of deaths, and would help to weaken the political power of Southern blacks and Republicans.
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Copperheads, also known as Peace Democrats, were a faction of Democrats in the Northern United States of the Union who opposed the American Civil War and wanted an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates.
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Chicago Still Isn’t the Murder Capital of America
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Can you spot the pattern?
St. Louis - Democrat since 1949
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Baltimore - Democrat since 1967
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Detroit - Democrat since 1962
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New Orleans - Democrat since 1872
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Cleveland - ONLY TWO republicans since 1942
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Newark - Democrat since 1953
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Cannot easily find the data for Memphis.
Chicago - Democrat since 1931
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Kansas City - Mostly Democrat since 1918
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Atlanta - Only two Republicans since 1855
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Milwaukee - Democrat since 1960
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Cincinnati - Democrat since 1984
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Oakland - Oakland had Republican mayors as late as the 1960s
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Washington DC DC = (Democrat Cesspool)
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Pittsburgh - Democrat since 1934
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Philadelphia - Democrat since 1952
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Buffalo - ONE Republican since 1954
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Indianapolis - Seven Republicans since 1927
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Fort Wayne - ONE Republican since 1980
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Louisville - ONLY TWO Republicans since 1933
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