Would a Democratic Tilden Administration (1877-1881) profoundly change the United States or would it essentially be a Cleveland Administration a few years early?
Would a Democratic Tilden Administration (1877-1881) profoundly change the United States or would it essentially be a Cleveland Administration a few years early?
Worse Reconstruction pull-out. Tilden nearly won on the backs of Southern Redeemers keeping black Republican voters from the polls through terror and intimidation; Sammy T. was a goddamn hypocrite.
I'm glad he lost, even if it did mean the end of voting rights for nearly a century. They would've been lost, either way.