The Coup on Cape Fear - Part One: The Dark Scheme
Historical Blindness
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The History of the Democratic Party
White republicans were sensitive to the racial resentments of democrats and maintained an informal segregation, such that black magistrates decided cases black residents. But these first gestures toward jim crow segregation were not enough for white supremacis democrats who would not be happy unless the black residents of the cape fear area were made as subservient and afraid as they once had been under the lashes of harsh overseers and cruel slave patrols. After the great depression, the party was nearly unrecognizable.
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