This is a LONG POST but there is a point to all of this. If you like history, you will have your eyes opened here.

You do know that history repeats itself for those who do not take a positive stance on changes and learn from mistakes. So a little history lesson...

Did you know that in 1876, the election put the Constitution at an extreme test? Shortly after that period of time there were congressional policies that resulted in biracial governments across the South in the late 1870s. There was a severe economic problem in 1873 that put the country in a massive depression up to that date. The entire country was falling apart under Grant's administration and that led to a Democratic win. Racism remained heavily in the North and trickled into the South. The North started blaming the problems of the country on the Black voters. Years later the KKK was formed to combat violence against the black population in the South. The Supreme Court ruled that the 14th Amendment has a promise of due process and equal protection that covered violations of citizen's rights by the states. This made it hard to prosecute anti-black violence... even as the KKK and other white supremacist groups were trying to reassert white control over the South. Because the communication across the South was so thin after the Civil War, many Southerners did not know or believe that the Civil War was over with and the black slaves were freed under the Emancipation Proclamation. So throughout that timeframe up through the 1870s... there was false information passed. There were no factcheckers.

So get this... when the election happened between Rutherford B Hayes and Samuel Tilden in 1876, once again there was a fight in the election process because Tilden had the popular vote. However he missed the electoral vote by ONE. Louisiana, Florida, and South Carolina were 3 states in dispute and both sides were trying to say they had won. Remember now that they didn't have the technology we have today. They were handling everything by paper. This election caused so much fuss that Congress itself had to decide on who would win.

Here is the interesting thing about it. Congress made the decision that the decision would be based upon a bipartisan electoral commission built of 5 representatives, 5 senators, and 5 Supreme Court Justices. If Congress had not come up with this decision, our country would have been back in a Civil War again.

So once Hayes was elected, he knew there was going to be trouble still in the South because there was federal intervention still in the area that was trying to get the Southerners to understand that the Civil War was over. Hayes agreed to cede control of the south to the Democrats. THIS is where the black communities started to be in favor of the Democratic Party. Throughout those years, the Democrats began their solid control over the South.

Now for the twist...

Did you know that those same Southern Democrats did not honor their pledge to uphold the rights of the black community? Imagine that! They ended up reversing everything soon after the federal intervention left. The Southern Democrats ended up pushing racial segregation through intimidation and violence and took advantage of those southern blacks that relied on the Southern Democrats for safety and wellbeing. Guess what happened during the time that they were lying and cheating their ways and reversing everything and causing racism to occur? The Jim Crow laws began happening until the civil rights movement in the 1960s happened. I love history.... however my fear is that if we do not learn from our past history and make a positive change, we will be bound to repeat.

Also... look at it this way... it makes PERFECT sense why the black community is mad about the racism. If you take the fact that the civil rights movement started in 1954 and ended in 1968... subtract 1876 from 1968... that is NINETY TWO YEARS of crap that they had to go through with the Southern Democrats and the US government. They have been upset and RIGHTFULLY so... however the Southern Democrats told the black southerners that it was the federal government that was causing the issues... therefore why the blacks still to this day still primarily favor to the Democratic party.

This makes things so much clearer to me...