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Southern and whites
This co-operation has emboldened other Southern whites to add their voices to demands for peaceable accommodation.
Following Lincoln's victory, many Southern whites felt that disunion had become their only option.
Their deployment to maintain order in the former Confederate states, caused increased resentment among many Southern whites.
The forces of Jacksonian Democracy, based among urban workers, Southern poor whites, and western farmers, dominated the era.
Harding also advocated the establishment of an international commission to improve race relations between whites and blacks ; however, strong political opposition by the Southern Democratic bloc prevented the commission.
Many in the North felt that they were being ' led ', and authoritatively spoken for, by a Southern accommodationist imposed on them primarily by Southern whites.
Southern states disfranchised most blacks and many poor whites from 1890 – 1908 through constitutional amendments and statutes that created barriers to voter registration, and voting such as poll taxes and literacy tests.
The popular vote was close, and Grant benefited from his popularity in the North and among the newly enfranchised freedmen in the South, and the temporary political disfranchisement of many Southern whites.
It split from the national Democrats over what was perceived as federal intervention in the segregation practices, laws and constitutions of the Southern states, which, among other issues, had largely disfranchised most blacks and many poor whites by constitutional amendments and electoral requirements from 1890 to 1910.
" Before the war, Sherman at times even expressed some sympathy with the view of Southern whites that the black race was benefiting from slavery, although he opposed breaking up slave families and advocated teaching slaves to read and write.
Southern whites expected deference from their black co-workers, and initially Southern blacks were conditioned to grant it.
Calhoun asserted that Southern whites, outnumbered in the United States by voters of the more densely-populated Northern states were one such minority deserving special protection in the legislature.
" Only the immediate and unflinching unity of Southern whites could prevent such a disaster.
Legend has it that, as he put down his pen, Johnson told an aide, " We have lost the South for a generation ", anticipating a coming backlash from Southern whites against Johnson's Democratic Party.
Southern Democrats defeated homestead laws, as they feared free land would attract European immigrants and poor Southern whites to the west.
Roosevelt set up his New Deal in 1933 and forged a coalition of labor unions, liberals, ethnic and racial minorities ( Catholics, Jews and Blacks ), Southern whites, poor people and those on relief.
Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton lured many of the Southern whites back at the level of presidential voting, but by 2000 white males in the South were 2-1 Republican and, indeed, formed a major part of the new Republican coalition.
This, coupled with Nixon's Southern Strategy aimed at attracting these voters, led to increased support for Republicans by Southern whites.
" Her role in Gone with the Wind had alarmed some whites in the Southern audience ; there were complaints that in the film she had been too familiar with her white owners.
He grew up hearing Southern gospel music sung by whites in church, and by black field workers when he started working in the cotton fields at age six.

Southern and themselves
But though the Southern States, when drafting a constitution to unite themselves, narrowed the difference to this fine point by omitting to assert the right to secede, the fact remained that by seceding from the Union they had already acted on the concept that it was composed primarily of sovereign states.
The two projects which Johnson had most at heart were the speedy admission of the Southern senators and representatives to Congress and the relegation of the question of negro suffrage to the States themselves.
The only people who identify themselves as Norteños are Mexicans from Northern Mexico, compared to Sureño or Mexicans from Southern Mexico.
By the 1980s there appeared fiction written by Southern authors who themselves claimed a redneck or white trash origins, such as Harry Crews, Dorothy Allison, Larry Brown, and Tim McLaurin .. Autobiographies sometimes mention white trash origins.
Dembski was part of that group at a symposium at Southern Methodist University in Dallas in March 1992, before they came to call themselves " The Wedge ".
This notion is disputed by those defining themselves as Danes, South Schleswigans or Schleswigans, particularly historians and people organised in the institutions of the Danish minority of Southern Schleswig, such as the South Schleswig Voter Federation.
Following the Second World War, a substantial part of the German population in Southern Schleswig changed their nationality and declared themselves as Danish.
Despite the Stuart family connections through Henrietta Maria and the Princess of Orange, France and the Dutch Republic allied themselves with Cromwell's government from 1654, forcing Charles to turn for aid to Spain, which at that time ruled the Southern Netherlands.
Many people of the Southern Cone, however, regard themselves as full members of the Western civilization.
In 1789, after the Southern Netherlands declared themselves independent, Hendrik knew this was a fragile state and he tried to be reunited with the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands.
It is usually geographically grouped with the Finger Lakes region, but some locals consider themselves to be part of Central New York or the Southern Tier.
" The Chemehuevi call themselves Nüwüwü (" The People ", singular Nüwü ) or Tantáwats, meaning " Southern Men.
Exploitation can occur at the community level as is sometimes seen throughout coastal villages of Southern Thailand where each resident may obtain for themselves every consumable of the mangrove forest ( fuelwood, timber, honey, resins, crab, and shellfish ) which then becomes threatened through increasing population and continual harvest.
As of 2010, 77. 39 % of the population identified themselves as belonging to a faith community ; of these 86. 5 % were Catholic, 9. 4 % were Southern Baptist and 2. 4 % were Churches of Christ.
The Russian army was allowed to withdraw to home territory and the French encamped themselves in Southern Germany.
Despite their San Francisco Bay Area origins, they positioned themselves as Southern rock stylists, singing about bayous, the Mississippi River, catfish, and other popular elements of Southern iconography.
The Vandals, Hasdingi and Silingi established themselves in Gallaecia ( Northern Portugal and Galicia ) and in Southern Spain, following other Germanic and non-Germanic peoples ( Visigoths, Alans and Suevi ), before moving to North Africa in AD 429.
All 128 MPs elected to the House of Commons of Southern Ireland in 1921 were returned unopposed, and 124 of them, representing Sinn Féin, declared themselves TDs ( Irish for Dáil Deputies ) and assembled as the Second Dáil of the Irish Republic.
Dragonriders and their dragons would spread across much of the Southern Continent in small groups to be known as WeyrHolds ( a Hold where dragons live ) where dragonriders would be able to support themselves through farming, trade or craft rather than relying on Hold and Craft generosity.
The people of Kinmen see themselves as Jīnmén rén ( Kinmenese ), Mínnán rén ( Southern Min, or Southern Fukienese ), or Chinese, but not so much as Taiwanese.
" The Northern Paiute call themselves Numa ( sometimes written Numu ); the Southern Paiute call themselves Nuwuvi.

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