What if Tilden Won in 1876

[@Nord_Fulbright]

Would the south be Republican or go the path in irl. Would Reconstruction end or Would it not

[𝕭𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖘𝖙𝖆 𝕸𝖎𝖓𝖔𝖑𝖆]

Hahahahahahaha imagine thinking that Tilden would not end Reconstruction.



Seriously, the South would have gone how it did in real life except quicker and with much more ease.

[Alben Barkley]

Tilden did win. You mean if he had been allowed to take office?

Well, things probably don't change that much. Tilden was a moderate Democrat for the time (in a similar mold to Cleveland, also Governor of New York) but probably would have still ended Reconstruction. Considering the reason he wasn't allowed to take office despite winning the election was that the Democrats had made a deal with the Republicans to end Reconstruction in exchange for installing Hayes, the pressure would certainly have been on Tilden had he been president to end Reconstruction, even if he didn't personally want to. (And all indications are he wasn't too concerned about it.)

The biggest difference is that without their corrupt bargain which stabbed black Americans in the back and disowned everything they had claimed to believe, the image of the Republican Party might not have been tarnished so quickly. Had it been a Democrat who ended Reconstruction rather than a Republican who did it as part of a deal to outright steal an election, that would have more neatly fit with the narrative of the Republicans as the "good guys" and the Democrats as the "bad guys" on civil rights.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

It doesnt matter because Jim Crow was already established in the South

Morrison Waite replaced Samuel P Chase and was less likely to interfere in Jim Crow and he was appointed by Grant