Forum Overview :: Balance of Power :: You're confused because a lot of other stuff DID happen between 1865 and 2026

[quote name="longpig"]But if you can't take this first step down the road of enlightenment then you also won't understand everything that came after. You're looking at the civil war and then jumping to last Thursday and viewing it all through the same lense as the blue haired, pierced septum crowd. For starters, to get even the roughest idea of how we got to where we are now you need to be familiar with: How Democrats re-established dominance in the south after the party of Lincoln had soundly defeated them When black Americans switched as a demographic to supporting the Democratic party and what specific event clinched the black American demo for the Democratic party But these issues are far more complex and contentious than my original question, so before you sprint off to find the answers to these burning questions, could you please tell me what year Republicans finally gained a majority of southern congressional seats and what year they actually gained a majority in state legislatures?[/quote]