thanks for the interesting reading material, got any more?? lol.
One of the news history books I read a year or so ago made the point that Democrat-aligned newspapers during reconstruction benefited greatly from government patronage at the local level - counties, towns, etc. GOP newspapers could never crack that revenue nut.
This enabled the Democrat papers to outlast the ‘carpetbagger’ Republican newspapers that tried to come in, and in turn helped keep the South solidly Democrat.