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A theory: BLM, CRT, Summer 2020 are consequences of the 1877 Compromise. (1) After the Civil War, Union soldiers occupied the South. Blacks & poor whites were integrated: drank together, slept together, traded goods & services, black Republicans ascended to national office, etc.
(2) "Immediately after the presidential election of 1876, it became clear that the outcome of the race hinged largely on disputed returns from Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina–the only three states in the South with Reconstruction-era Republican governments still in power.
(2.1)As a bipartisan congressional commission debated over the outcome early in 1877, allies of the Republican Party candidate Rutherford Hayes met in secret with moderate southern Democrats in order to negotiate acceptance of Hayes’ election.
