“In the 1870 south there were many Blacks in elected office by the 1900 there was none. Why because the blacks were intimidated from voting.”
Actually the last African American Congressman from the South until 1972 was George Henry White of North Carolina, who left office in 1901. And it wasn’t just intimidation, it was legal barriers to voting that the white racists enacted in order to suppress voter turnout among the “wrong” groups. Back then the people doing that were Democrats but today they are Republicans, as they know that they cannot win without doing so.
And it isn’t just blacks who are targeted. Some communities in upstate NY have been targeting Jews. 🙁