Anyone else pissed at the election of 1876?

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The good guys (republicans, in those days) got Hayes as president, a temporary win, in exchange for permanently ending reconstruction in the house, which enabled Jim Crow and the kkk.

If only the north had finished the job of stamping out racism and confederate nostalgia and such.

How different America might have been....

[Kaleva]

1. Would we have had the New Deal without the Southern, racist vote?

[Pototan]

13. Yes, we would have

The election of 1876 would not have stopped the Great Depression and FDR would have won that election because of the economy.

And, besides that, if we stamped out the racists in the South, there would have been a greater number of African American votes, as there would have been less of a migration to the North.

[Kaleva]

15. The New Deal had to be passed by Congress

Made up partly of Southern white racists who were absolutely loyal to the Democratic Party and any Dem president.

And remember, blacks after the Civil War and for decades later were for the most part, loyal Republicans.

It doesn’t make sense for blacks to be in favor of the party seen as being pro-slavery or at least tolerant of slavery instead of supporting the party of Lincoln.

Blacks didn’t shift to the Democratic Party till the Civil Rights movement.

[Pototan]

16. They wouldn't have been there

The South would have had African American members.

[Kaleva]

17. Who would have been Republicans

[Polybius]

2. It was a stolen election for sure

[eppur_se_muova]

3. really the "compromise" which followed the election ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compromise_of_1877

[ITAL]

4. Reconstruction was ending either way

Congress had been taken over by Democrats that were starving funding. Grant had already pulled troops out of all but three states (not only that, he'd made plans to remove them from the rest, but waited till he was gonna be out of the White House...sort of like Trump leaving the last removal of troops from Afghanistan for Biden) and it's not like Tilden was gonna keep it going had he won. It's unfair that the end of Reconstruction is blamed on Hayes.

[flamingdem]

5. Finish the job!

Better late than never.

[struggle4progress]

6. Sufficient unto today are the troubles thereof

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7. I get it, but as long as people are gonna go back and blame nader and others in the past,

I thought I'd have my own fun with it.

History is a source of potential wisdom, but for the most part I'm a very forward-looking person. What's done is done, what can we do to make the best of whatever mess we have.

[Wednesdays]

8. Amen. nt

[GiqueCee]

9. Stamping out thought...

... no matter how repugnant it might be, is a REAL slippery slope. My hatred of racism and it adherents burns hotter than the surface of the Sun, but we've already seen how right-wing filth can turn even the most well-intentioned idea inside out and weaponize it.

[IronLionZion]

10. Anyone else pissed at 1776?

If we had stayed a British colony, we could very well be like Canada or Australia or New Zealand today.

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11. They even managed to ban slavery before us, which is pretty embarrassing, really,

Though unclear if that would have happened had we remained part of the British empire...

[IronLionZion]

14. 1833 for UK

1888 for Brazil, the last country in the western hemisphere to abolish slavery.

Slavery is more recent than people may think. Mauritania is the last country in the world to abolish slavery by presidential decree (like an executive order) in 1981, but didn't have any law for that until 2007.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. One of my great-grandfathers was born that year

When the WWI draft cards were being released to search through "for free" for a limited time by Ancestry.com, I spotted one for him. He was at the top of the age range being 41 and most likely didn't serve but still... That was the Centennial year and "too much progress" happened.

These guys were in the 41st & 42nd Congress (1869 - 1873) -