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Yes, racist Democrats.Which political party initiated and enforced Jim Crow?Yes, during the few years of ReconstructionBlacks were elected to office in many places in the south after slavery was banned. The Democrats even tried to shoot them while in Congress.“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality… I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied every thing."
Racist today
In 1860, that was the accepted view towards blacks.
You would find very few who advocated full equality for blacks.
The idea of blacks voting, being on juries and being fully equal to whites in every way was not accepted in our country until the 1960s
If Lincoln had supported intermarriage, he would have been lynched.
Reconstruction was quickly replaced by Jim Crow and Jim Crow ruled for 100 years
Jim Crow was a function of Southern Society most who tended to be Democrats
They also tended to be White and Baptist