Describe a Southern Democrat in the 1870s who was in favor in Reconstruction

[WalterWhite]

During the 1860s and 1870s, Southern Democrats, as a group, were opposed to Reconstruction. They wanted to retain their political power, and giving African-Americans the right to vote (who would have overwhelmingly supported Republicans because they OPPOSED SLAVERY) would have threatened the lock on the South that the Democratic Party had in those days.

Based on that information, describe a Southern Democrat in the 1870s who was in favor in Reconstruction

[patzer]

Someone who had moved to the South from, say, New York, and voted Democrat for anti-corruption reasons?

[Agonized-Statism]

Whites who supported Reconstruction were in the minority and primarily dominated Southern Republican parties at the time, but historian Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins and Frank J. Wetta note that there were some open-minded wealthy Democrats in New Orleans, Alabama, and South Carolina- former Whigs who avoided disenfranchisement by staying quiet during the Civil War- who reluctantly solicited black votes. While keeping in mind that years of Lost Cause historical scholarship makes it difficult to discern the truth, they're generally regarded as people who only cared about their own finances and sought aid for economic development of projects in which they had an economic stake.

[Pres Mike]

Wouldn't this apply to the people of East Tennessee? They voted Republican so in theory they supported reconstruction, but were quite racist and had segergation.

Probably someone in Jones County, Mississippi. In 1863, they left the state in support of the Union. It was a coalition of former slaves and poor whites. Yes, they made a movie about this starring Matthew McConaughey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_State_of_Jones_(film)

[Statilius the Epicurean]

Someone who had moved to the South from, say, New York, and voted Democrat for anti-corruption reasons?

There were a handful of black Southerners who voted Democratic over corruption in the Grant administration, the failure of the Freedman's Savings Bank and a perception that Republicans weren't all that committed to Reconstruction anyway so there was no difference between the parties on civil rights.

[Jingizu]

In hiding, I suspect