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What we term as left vs. right today really didn’t come into being until about 1896. Both parties had wide-ranging ideologies, even in the 1870s. Blacks made up the bulk of the voters in Charleston at that point before the Dems began to disenfranchise them later in the decade, doing so almost entirely by 1900. Absent that disenfranchisement, South Carolina would’ve been sending Black Republican Congressmen from the Charleston and interior areas until at least the 1960s.

Blacks made up the bulk of the voters in Charleston at that point before the Dems began to disenfranchise them later in the decade, doing so almost entirely by 1900.

I have come to believe that had it not been a certainty that blacks would rubber stamp Republicans in elections, the Republicans never would have allowed them to vote.

I used to believe that they were given citizenship and the right to vote because it was the right thing to do, but studying history you quickly learn they never intended to even free them, let alone treat them as citizens.

It becomes clear their motivation was not "the rights of man" or morality, but raw political power, which incidentally is the exact same reason the liberal party of today wants to give illegals the right to vote.

It's about power today, and it was only about power in 1868. We are fooling ourselves to believe it was ever about morality.

Absent that disenfranchisement, South Carolina would’ve been sending Black Republican Congressmen from the Charleston and interior areas until at least the 1960s.

Which is exactly why the white population wanted to keep them from voting. They were simply giving power to the liberals who had used the force of government to kill them and deny them the economic independence they wanted from the corrupt oligarchs of the North which controlled Washington DC in those days, and still control it today.

It's no accident that all the media outlets are under the thumb of wealthy New York liberals who make a *LOT* of money from Democrats controlling congress and the presidency.

We can now all see it is nothing but a big corruption scheme, and the evidence indicates it has been a big corruption scheme since at least the 1850s.

The blacks are just pawns in it.