[NRx]

Not a fan at all of Pierce or Buchanan, but otherwise this is a good read.

[cowboyusa]

Some Bourbons were anti-racist. It was the socialist Populists who were Racists in the South. In the 1870s and 1880s, Blacks some rights in the south.

[Verginius Rufus]

Cleveland had more popular votes than Benjamin Harrison in 1888, but Harrison had more electoral votes. In 1884 Cleveland won by carrying New York state very narrowly, after a prominent supporter of James Blaine denounced the Democrats as the party of "rum, Romanism and rebellion," offending Catholics who might otherwise have voted for Blaine...or so the usual explanation goes. It could be that ballot-stuffing in New York City made the difference in the outcome.

I had a great-uncle, born in 1885, whose middle name was Cleveland. His father was a Democrat.

[NRx]

Good general background on Cleveland...

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