OK Muskogee. Howzabiut you back up your bullshit?
OK. Muskogee. Howzabout I back up your bullshit?
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_...Federal_Office
Seems that during Reconstruction, there were NINE Blacks elected to Congress.
Spoze that's somewhere near 95%, eh! truckstop?.
Originally Posted by Yssup Rider
Here you go Spam Writer...
Considerable violence and fraud accompanied elections as the white Democrats regained power; they used paramilitary groups to suppress black Republican voting and turn Republicans out of office. In the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898 (long called a race riot by whites), white Democrats conducted a coup d'etat of city government, the only one in United States history; they overturned a duly elected biracial government and then widely attacked the black community, destroying lives and property. Finally, Democrats achieved disfranchisement by law: from 1890 to 1908, Southern states passed new constitutions, constitutional amendments and laws that made voter registration and voting more difficult, achieving the desired result of disfranchising most black voters, as well as many poor whites.
The Republican Party was nearly destroyed in the region. Southern Democrats established a one-party system based on white supremacy. As Congressional apportionment was based on the total population, the Southern white Democrats, the Southern Bloc, came to have outsize power in Congress for decades. "Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment reduces congressional representation for states that deny suffrage on racial grounds," but it was not enforced, as opponents of the South could not get around their power in Congress.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disfran...nstruction_Era