(US, historical) A political strategy used by white Democrats in Mississippi during the Reconstruction era, by intimidating black voters and to guarantee that white Democrats would take control of the
(US, historical) A political strategy used by white Democrats in Mississippi during the Reconstruction era, by intimidating black voters and to guarantee that white Democrats would take control of the state government.
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(US, historical) A strategy that was developed by white Southern Democrats to regain political control from the Republican Party.
(historical) A member of a paramilitary arm of the Democratic party in Mississippi and South Carolina at the end of Reconstruction.
(US, _, politics) A political strategy in which a presidential candidate campaigns in all fifty states, rather than only focusing on those which are considered most important.
(US, historical) Any law that racially segregated public facilities and which was enacted in Southern and border states in the United States between 1876 and 1965.
(France, historical) A financial scheme devised by John Law in 18th-century France.