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American regional political faction
In the 1950s and 1960s, party labels did not map neatly onto support or opposition to civil rights: , while a coalition of Northern Democrats and a significant bloc of Republicans provided essential v...
Congressional and state votes on the Nineteenth Amendment split sharply along regional lines: historians and legal analysts say Southern Democrats were the principal organized opposition in Congress a...
Congress approved the text that became the 22nd Amendment in March 1947 and the states completed ratification on February 27, 1951; the vote coalition was Republicans plus several Southern Democrats a...
Southern Democrats were the principal congressional bloc resisting major civil‑rights legislation in the 1960s: they largely opposed early federal measures in 1957–60, mounted a prolonged Senate filib...
was not created by a formal political party; it began in 1865 as a secret social club of in , and quickly evolved into a violent movement aimed at defeating -era Republican power and intimidating Blac...
Rutherford B. Hayes’s removal of the last federal troops from Southern statehouses in spring 1877 is widely identified by historians and contemporary sources as the decisive act that ended Reconstruct...