1872 Presidential Election

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The only real option here is Grant.

A vote for Greeley or O'Conor is a vote to turn the South back over to the white supremacist Democratic Party and destroy everything that the war was fought for. The only person capable of fighting the Klan and suppressing the enemies of the Republic is Grant, and that's who I would vote for.

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Probably Greeley at the time.

So you're pro-Klan?

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Probably Greeley at the time.

So you're pro-Klan?

His inclusion of "at the time" leads me to think his South Carolina residency is factored in as well. Not that such changes much, but, y'know.

Give his '#Ready4Strom' username, I figure he'd be a traitor rightfully denied the right to vote.

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Poor white-black cooperation in Southern Republican parties was still very high until the counterrevolution of the mid 1870s, so there's really no reason to assume that, at least white yeoman, wouldn't be voting for Grant, too. The Gentry had basically lost it's right to vote (as well it should have), but it would be interesting to find out how the white vote did split, given the empowerment of white yeoman and black freedmen by the radical Republican parties of the South at the time.