Frankly, I am not about to endorse revised discussion of the Reconstruction Politics in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War loss by the South to transmogrify that to some mystical relevance of Democrats and Republicans of today.
The Civil war did not even start over slavery.... maybe we should start by getting that straight.
Demoncrats ALWAYS back slavery, then and today.
AnD TODAY, the DNC backing of Islamic rape, slavery and
terror is ONLY matched by the odious, lying GOP.
Uniparty = Slavery, THEN and NOW.
There is a point here hat I will never understand. You talk about some instances of racial segregation created by the southern democrats. I can remember a couple more. The Jim Crow Laws, the using of the count of black slaves to give southern democrats more people under their state capacity giving them more federal voting rights to continue segregation, and the efforts of the southern democrats to vote down the Equal Rights Amendments in the mid sixties. Yet blacks continue to follow them around like puppies on a leash. Why side with the continuing bigotry? red
But only after the first two years of war. For the first two years of the war, the Union was only fighting to stop Independence for the South. They were going to keep slaves in slavery if they had won quickly in those first two years.
People keep getting their history mixed up with propaganda.
And the Democrats entitlement policys have continued to keep the majority of blacks in slavery. The government has replaced the plantation owners.