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What comparisons can be drawn between the election of 1872 and today? On page 125, Blight suggests that, "for many white Southerners it made good sense to suspend the function of the Democratic Party for an election, to join all apparent anti-Grant, anti-corruption sentiment as a means of achieving their goals of local autonomy and white supremacy." Can it be said that these themes are manifesting themselves again?- DRadtke | What comparisons can be drawn between the election of 1872 and today? On page 125, Blight suggests that, "for many white Southerners it made good sense to suspend the function of the Democratic Party for an election, to join all apparent anti-Grant, anti-corruption sentiment as a means of achieving their goals of local autonomy and white supremacy." Can it be said that these themes are manifesting themselves again?- DRadtke | ||
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| + | To what degree was the democratic party, and the ex-Confederates in general, successful in asserting that they were the ones who had been wronged in the civil war? And how was the question of who won the Civil War up for debate, as blight states when he says that, "the enduring political character of Civil War memory thrived on this sort of contest over just who had won the war and what had been its verdict". AJ L. | ||
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| + | How effective of a Role did black males play in Reconstruction politics, aside form the example of Frederick Douglas? And how strong of a political force were they? AJ L. | ||
