"Favoring Republicans over Democrats in 1889 was all about white supremacy" is...um...quite a take.https://twitter.com/LemieuxLGM/status/1293679799307653120 …
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Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Scott Lemieux
"Favoring Republicans over Democrats in 1889 was all about white supremacy" is...um...quite a take.https://twitter.com/LemieuxLGM/status/1293679799307653120 …
Dan McLaughlin added,
This would be an effective criticism if this was what @LemieuxLGM wrote. But of course it isn’t, so therefore you’ve evaded actually engaging with what he did write.
Except he cites zero evidence for the claim that admitting those states was for the intended purpose of enabling Republicans to abandon black civil rights.
Yes, you got it right this time. But that’s precisely the question to ask @LemieuxLGM, a very knowledgeable scholar. Your original claim was wrong, and shut down further analysis. We all do it, but this was an obvious case.
As a rule, you don't make a claim that big without mentioning the evidence, if you have any.
See pp. 83-8 of the paper I cited. The Republican expansion of the Senate with barely populated western states was inextricable from their abandonment of civil rights: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2483355 …
What is still conspicuously absent from that paper is any evidence - contemporaneous or otherwise - that anybody at the time saw the admission of new states as a reason not to act against Democrats in the South.
Without these new states, Republicans could not have completely ceded the South and been competitive in most national elections. The expansion was crucial to allowing Republicans to ignore Sections 1 and 2 of the 14th Amendment. I'm not sure what you're disputing here.
They...had already completely lost the South over a decade earlier.
A major electoral disadvantage that the framers of the 14th Amendment assumed would incentivize them to enforce Sections 1 and/or 2, but they chose to create a bunch of small overwhelmingly white states to mitigate this disadvantage instead!
You're confusing a side effect of the then-existing partisan divide with a motivation, in the absence of evidence of the latter.
This, despite the huge political charm, is actually a pretty normal discussion about historical interpretation—informed interlocutors, disagreement about empircs and weighing factors. Kind of shocking.
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