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theivoryqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 10:39 AM Original message |
History question: |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 10:44 AM Response to Original message |
1. The Radical Republicans Were The "Good Guys" Of Their Day |
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Whitacre D_WI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 10:44 AM Response to Original message |
2. Your history book is wrong... |
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DemocratSinceBirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 10:46 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Lots of presidents won pluralities.... |
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theivoryqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 10:49 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. I also have a faulty memory! |
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theivoryqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 10:52 AM Response to Reply #2 |
8. Thanks for the corrections, but what was the incident involving |
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Ouabache (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 11:06 AM Response to Reply #2 |
11. Benjamin Harrison got less popular votes than Grover Cleveland in 1888 |
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youngred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 10:45 AM Response to Original message |
3. do you have a year for that incident? |
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theivoryqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 10:51 AM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Thanks. |
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youngred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 11:56 AM Response to Reply #7 |
19. You're lucky |
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rasputin1952 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 12:17 PM Response to Reply #7 |
24. As an aside, that shot in Ford's Theater... |
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youngred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 07:27 PM Response to Reply #24 |
29. Excellent Points Ras |
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Bandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 11:24 AM Response to Reply #3 |
12. "once the whites got control back in the south. " |
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theboss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 11:47 AM Response to Reply #12 |
15. Reconstruction |
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Bandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 12:19 PM Response to Reply #15 |
25. So you are saying Blacks had control of the South? |
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Whitacre D_WI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 11:50 AM Response to Reply #12 |
16. The South was governed by the PEOPLE, white and black both... |
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youngred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 11:54 AM Response to Reply #16 |
18. bingo |
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Liberal Classic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 10:50 AM Response to Original message |
6. Other presidents who won electoral not not popular: |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 12:39 PM Response to Reply #6 |
27. For an absorbing account of the Hayes/Tilden election |
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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 10:52 AM Response to Original message |
9. The horrible truth is that Thomas Jefferson won a crucial election |
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youngred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 11:58 AM Response to Reply #9 |
21. Ugly politics |
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RichM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 11:01 AM Response to Original message |
10. BTW - "Reconstruction" was NOT during Lincoln's 2nd term. |
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theivoryqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 11:37 AM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Looks like I'll have to head back to the books. |
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beyurslf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
14. You need a new history book. |
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beyurslf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 11:53 AM Response to Original message |
17. And Abe Lincoln |
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tritsofme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 11:56 AM Response to Reply #17 |
20. And he won the electoral vote without carrying a single Southern state, |
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beyurslf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 12:11 PM Response to Reply #20 |
23. When I was in high school |
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NoPasaran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 08:00 PM Response to Reply #20 |
30. I've always heard |
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youngred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 08:47 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. that would be correct n/t |
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reachout (236 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 12:10 PM Response to Original message |
22. Hmmm |
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BrotherBuzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 12:26 PM Response to Original message |
26. traitors not welcomed...and more |
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Yupster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-06-03 01:40 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. Took a while, but |
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