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(55,454 posts) Tue Jun 10, 2025, 02:48 PM Jun 10

Anyone else pissed at the election of 1876? [View all]

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....

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Anyone else pissed at the election of 1876? [View all] unblock Jun 10 OP

Would we have had the New Deal without the Southern, racist vote? Kaleva Jun 10 #1

Yes, we would have Pototan Jun 10 #13

The New Deal had to be passed by Congress Kaleva Jun 10 #15

They wouldn't have been there Pototan Jun 11 #16

Who would have been Republicans Kaleva Jun 11 #17

It was a stolen election for sure Polybius Jun 10 #2

really the "compromise" which followed the election ... eppur_se_muova Jun 10 #3

Reconstruction was ending either way ITAL Jun 10 #4

Finish the job! flamingdem Jun 10 #5

Sufficient unto today are the troubles thereof struggle4progress Jun 10 #6

I get it, but as long as people are gonna go back and blame nader and others in the past, unblock Jun 10 #7

Amen. nt Wednesdays Jun 10 #8

Stamping out thought... GiqueCee Jun 10 #9

Anyone else pissed at 1776? IronLionZion Jun 10 #10

They even managed to ban slavery before us, which is pretty embarrassing, really, unblock Jun 10 #11

1833 for UK IronLionZion Jun 10 #14

One of my great-grandfathers was born that year BumRushDaShow Jun 10 #12