owners who had dominated the affairs in their respective state.” The 1872 election was the first postwar election in which all 11 states had been readmitted to the Union. (11 states participated in the election and Grant had been reelected.) Coming from counties that relatively poor and contained few blacks and these people were less likely to be swayed by appeals to white supremacy, since the few blacks among them posed no threat. Geographically, the counties containing the largest proportion of white republicans “were chiefly contentrated in the mt. regions of E Tenn, W NC, and NW Arkansas (the ozarks). Other centers of white republican strenghts were the hilly northern parts of Ala and Ge, SW Missouri, SW Virginia. These my counties had been regions of Union strength in 1860 and of war time loyalism to the Union during the war. And they are precisely the area, according to this person, where white republicans …. In 1872. In Texas, the greatest amount of white republicans were found among the mexican pop along the Rio Grand and among the large german element in central texas, in San Antionio. The german of SW texas comprised of the largest block of Southern immigrants. (The republicans offered the blacks economic opportunity but the republicans were denied he funds and had to resort to highter taxes and alienated the common white consituency). In 1872, in no state taken has a whole were white republicans even close to a majority of all white voters. According to Trelease, white Republicans cast a total of about 150,000 popular votes in 1872 in the 11 states; almost half in Tenn and NC. Throughout the south, White republicans cast 10% of all the votes cast by whites and blacks. In other words, about 1 in 10 were scalawags. About 20% of those cast by whitemen (1 in 5) was a republican in the south. And about 80% of the republican votes in the south were blacks. Trelease also challenges that portion of Donald’s ...
