How the Republican Party Became White: The Lily-White Movement

"White voters in the Outer South were more willing to vote for the Republican Party based upon a visible change in the racial composition of the party leadership."

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The Lost History of Southern Republicans, Part II

As I wrote on Friday, by the 1890s, the Republican Party in the South was mostly viewed as a set of rotten boroughs. In each state – outside of a few areas in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virgini…

https://broadstreet.blog/2020/09/14/the-lost-history-of-southern-republicans-part-ii/
"As I wrote on Friday, by the 1890s, the Republican Party in the South was mostly viewed as a set of rotten boroughs. In each state – outside of a few areas in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia – a Republican organization existed not to compete in elections, but to control
... delegations at the Republican National Convention and take advantage of executive patronage when a Republican was elected president." https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/republican-party-politics-and-the-american-south-18651968/introduction/4873ED83D1F2E6AA11CF1B2AEB3736C9/core-reader
Introduction (Chapter 1) - Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865–1968

Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865–1968 - March 2020

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/republican-party-politics-and-the-american-south-18651968/introduction/4873ED83D1F2E6AA11CF1B2AEB3736C9/core-reader
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