I'm confused, somebody help me out here:
A Republican 'winner' in 1876 GUARANTEED that Jim Crow would remain in place in the South?
And a Democrat that should have won would have.....ended Jim Crow?
Is that what is being suggested? Two quotes from the Miller Center link:
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Two issues interested Democrats—restoring their control of governments, and thus white supremacy, in the South (and removing the last of the federal troops) and a federal subsidy for railroads.
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Hayes insisted that Democrats in South Carolina and Louisiana pledged to uphold the civil and voting rights of black and white Republicans. Once the Democrats agreed, Hayes pulled the remaining federal troops out of the South. And white southerners quickly turned their backs on their pledges, systematically disenfranchising black voters through poll taxes, literacy tests, and intimidation. Democrats in the South created a segregated society that used terror and violence to oppress African Americans.
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It doesn't seem that confusing after all, does it? It's just like 46Z is flat out wrong.
