The state’s party was founded on white supremacy. Now the power of the Black vote has put the state at the front of the line, writes Roger House.
in 1948 ending segregation in the military. Thurmond lashed out in a speech, saying, “I want to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there’s not enough troops in the army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the Negro race.”—or “Dixiecrats”—an alliance of southern Democrats disaffected with the national party’s stance on civil rights. He won South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana in the general election, and the states’ 39 electoral votes.
During the 1960s, students began to challenge the city’s Jim Crow restrictions. Among them was the current South Carolina Democratic leader, Rep., elected in 1993 as the first Black congressman from the state since the Reconstruction era. He met his wife Emily England Clyburn, a descendant of the Gullah Geechee community, in the Orangeburg jail in 1960 during a civil rights demonstration.
People wait in line to cast their ballot for the presidential election during early voting in Sumter, South Carolina, Oct. 9, 2020.In recent years, Blacks have been the foundation of the Democratic Party in the South—but their political influence is limited to the predominantly Black cities, towns, and congressional districts. White Republicans, by contrast, hold power over city, county, state, and federal elected offices and government agencies.
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